Paying for Tolerance: Rural Citizens' Attitudes toward Wolf Depredation and Compensation

Conservation Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1500-1511

  Naughton Treves, Lisa ^a,b,c   Grossberg, Rebecca ^d   Treves, Adrian ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Center for Applied Biodiversity Science   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d Madison Environmental Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANID; DOMESTIC SPECIES; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PREDATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; URSUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 0346843116     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00060.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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