Impacts of roads and hunting on central African rainforest mammals

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1251-1261

  Laurance, William F ^a   Croes, Barbara M ^b   Tchignoumba, Landry ^b   Lahm, Sally A ^b,c   Alonso, Alfonso ^b   Lee, Michelle E ^b   Campbell, Patrick ^b   Ondzeano, Claude ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Institut de Recherche en Ecologie Tropicale   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Gabon; Infrastructure; Oil development; Rainforest; Tropical forests; Wildlife conservation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; HUNTING; MAMMAL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RAINFOREST; ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TREE; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; MAMMALS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CEPHALOPHUS; ELEPHANTIDAE; GORILLA GORILLA GORILLA; MAMMALIA; POTAMOCHOERUS PORCUS; RODENTIA; SUS SCROFA; SYNCERUS CAFFER NANUS; TRAGELAPHUS SPEKII; UNGULATA;

EID: 33746360254     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00420.x     Document Type: Article

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