Reply to Jacobs and Manfredo: More support for a pervasive decline in nature-based recreation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 27, 2008, Pages

  Pergams, Oliver R W ^a   Zaradic, Patricia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Red Rock Institute Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; LETTER; NATIONAL PARK; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECREATION; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE;

EID: 48249108368     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0803331105     Document Type: Letter

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