The long-term, range-wide decline of a once common carnivore: The eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius)

Animal Conservation

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 195-201

  Gompper, Matthew E ^a   Hackett, H Mundy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION STATUS; HARVESTING; MUSTELID; POPULATION DECLINE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; CARNIVORA; MEPHITIDAE; SPILOGALE PUTORIUS;

EID: 19644393678     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943005001964     Document Type: Article

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