The market for bushmeat: Colobus Satanas on Bioko Island

Ecological Economics

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2619-2626

  Morra, Wayne ^a   Hearn, Gail ^b   Buck, Andrew J ^c  

^a ARCADIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Bushmeat; Empirical distribution; Price elasticity; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BARGAINING; BUSHMEAT; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HUNTING; MAMMAL; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; PRICE DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TRADE FLOW;

AFRICA; BIOKO; CENTRAL AFRICA; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

COLOBINAE; COLOBUS SATANAS;

EID: 67649207400     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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