The impact on tigers of poaching versus prey depletion

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1667-1674

  Chapron, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Miquelle, Dale G ^d   Lambert, Amaury ^a   Goodrich, John M ^d   Legendre, Stéphane ^a   Clobert, Jean ^e  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^e UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Branching process model; Deterministic model; Panthera tigris; Poaching; Population viability; Prey depletion; Tiger

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIRTH INTERVAL; BREEDING POPULATION; CARNIVORE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; EMIGRATION; FELID; HABITAT LOSS; MORTALITY; POACHING; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION VIABILITY ANALYSIS; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SURVIVAL;

FELIDAE; PANTHERA; PANTHERA TIGRIS;

EID: 54349118994     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01538.x     Document Type: Article

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