Repositioning zoogeography within the nature-culture borderlands: An animal geography of reptiles in southern Ghana

Applied Geography

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 260-268

  Campbell, Michael ^a  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Animal geography; Ghana; Livelihoods; Reptile; Zoogeography

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION MAKING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; POLICY MAKING; REPTILE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; ELAPIDAE; PYTHONIDAE; REPTILIA; SQUAMATA; VARANUS;

EID: 61449249108     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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