Identifying snake species threatened by economic exploitation and international trade in China

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 3525-3536

  Zhou, Zhihua ^a,b,d   Jiang, Zhigang ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b Endangered Species Import and Export Management Office of the People's Republic of China   (China)

^c China Endangered Species Sci C   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Economic exploitation; Endangered species; International trade; Risk assessment; Serpentes; Snakes

Indexed keywords

CITES; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SNAKE;

SERPENTES;

EID: 29144519683     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-004-0826-5     Document Type: Article

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