The role of Asia in the global trade in CITES II-listed poison arrow frogs: Hopping from Kazakhstan to Lebanon to Thailand and beyond

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1963-1970

  Nijman, Vincent ^a,b   Shepherd, Chris R ^a,b,c  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c TRAFFIC Southeast Asia   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Conservation; Endangered species; Southeast Asia; Wildlife trade

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE BREEDING; CITES; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATABASE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FROG; GLOBAL TRADE; TEMPORAL PERIOD; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

SOUTHEAST ASIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; DENDROBATIDAE;

EID: 77952952453     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9814-0     Document Type: Article

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