Sharing natural resources: Mountain gorillas and people in the Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda

African Journal of Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 621-627

  van Gils, Hein ^a   Kayijamahe, Eugene ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

Entropy; Geographic distribution; Modelling; Mountain gorillas; Park management

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; GPS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE CONSERVATION; PRIMATE; RESOURCE USE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; VEGETATION TYPE;

RWANDA; VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 77955779551     PISSN: 01416707     EISSN: 13652028     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2028.2009.01154.x     Document Type: Article

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