Discriminating between village and commercial hunting of apes

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1500-1506

  Kuehl, Hjalmar S ^a   Nzeingui, Christian ^b   Yeno, Stephane Le Duc ^b   Huijbregts, Bas ^b   Boesch, Christophe ^a   Walsh, Peter D ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b WWF Gamba   (Gabon)

Author keywords

Density; Human population center; Park management; Population gradient; Survey; Village

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; HILLSLOPE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; HUNTING; NATIONAL PARK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARK MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMATE; SPATIAL VARIATION; VILLAGE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; CENTRAL AFRICA; GABON; MOUKALABA DOUDOU NATIONAL PARK; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 67349147666     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.02.032     Document Type: Article

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