Evaluating measures of hunting effort in a bushmeat system

Biological Conservation

Volumn 141, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2086-2099

  Rist, Janna ^a,b   Rowcliffe, Marcus ^a   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a   Milner Gulland, E J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catch per Unit Effort; Equatorial Guinea; Hunting method; Trapping; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

BUSHMEAT; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; HUNTING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRAPPING; TROPICAL FOREST;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 49349114520     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2008.06.005     Document Type: Article

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