Assessing sustainability at multiple scales in a rotational bushmeat hunting system;Evaluación de la sustentabilidad en múltiples escalas en un sistema rotativo de cacería de vida silvestre

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 861-871

  Kümpel, Noëlle F ^a,b,c   Milner Gulland, E J ^b   Cowlishaw, Guy ^a   Marcus Rowcliffe, J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; CPUE; Equatorial guinea; Hunting sustainability; Prey profile; Spatial temporal scales; Sustainability indices; Trapping

Indexed keywords

BUSHMEAT; COMMUNITY RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; EXTINCTION RISK; HUMAN ACTIVITY; HUNTING; PRIMATE; RODENT; RUMINANT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS; TRAPPING; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MEAT; CENTRAL AFRICA;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; MEAT;

EQUATORIAL GUINEA;

ATHERURUS AFRICANUS; CEPHALOPHUS MONTICOLA; PRIMATES;

EID: 77952670744     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01505.x     Document Type: Article

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