Assessing potential for community-based management of peccaries through common pool resource theory in the rural area of the Argentine Chaco

Ambio

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 108-113

  Altrichter, Mariana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FIELDWORK; RURAL AREA; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ARGENTINA; ARTIODACTYLA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARGENTINA; SOUTH AMERICA;

PECARI TAJACU; TAYASSUIDAE;

EID: 43249101071     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447(2008)37[108:APFCMO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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43. I acknowledge the people of the Impenetrable for sharing their experiences and knowledge with me. This study forms part of a project coordinated by the Dirección de Fauna y Flora Silvestre de Argentina. I thank this agency for their support. Funds were provided by the governments of Italy and Switzerland. I thank Gabriel Boaglio and Natalia Veron for field assistance. I also thank William Shaw, Diane Austin and Xavier Basurto and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions to improve this manuscript.
44. First submitted 1 November 2005. Accepted for publication 1 April 2007.