Monitoring impacts of natural resource extraction on lemurs of the Masoala Peninsula, Madagascar

Ecology and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Merenlender, Adina ^a   Kremen, Claire ^b   Rakotondratsima, Marius ^b   Weiss, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society   (Madagascar)

^c Center for Conservation Biology   (Madagascar)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Buffer zone; Census techniques; Conservation; Eulemur fulvus albifrons; GIS; Lemurs; Madagascar; National park; Natural resource extraction; Primate; Protected area management; Varecia variegata rubra

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249134032     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00064-020205     Document Type: Article

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