Top predators as conservation tools: Ecological rationale, assumptions, and efficacy

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2008, Pages 1-19

  Sergio, Fabrizio ^a   Caro, Tim ^b   Brown, Danielle ^b   Clucas, Barbara ^b   Hunter, Jennifer ^b   Ketchum, James ^b   McHugh, Katherine ^b   Hiraldo, Fernando ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Ecosystem conservation; Surrogate species; Trophic cascades; Vertebrate predators

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; PREDATOR; TROPHIC CASCADE; VERTEBRATE;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 58549120003     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.39.110707.173545     Document Type: Review

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