Estimating cost functions for the four large carnivores in Sweden

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 517-524

  Bostedt, Göran ^a   Grahn, Pontus ^a  

^a Department of Forest Economics ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carnivores; Costs; Economics; Predation

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CANID; CARNIVORE; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; GULO GULO; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; RANGIFER TARANDUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 53749104725     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.05.008     Document Type: Article

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