Rapidly shifting baselines in yangtze fishing communities and local memory of extinct species;Cambios rápidos en las directrices en comunidades de pescadores de yangtze y en la memoria local de especies extintas

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 778-787

  Turvey, Samuel T ^a   Barrett, Leigh A ^b   Yujiang, Hao ^c   Lei, Zhang ^c   Xinqiao, Zhang ^c   Xianyan, Wang ^c   Yadong, Huang ^c   Kaiya, Zhou ^d   Hart, Tom ^a   Ding, Wang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b Vaquitaorg Foundation   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Baiji; Generational amnesia; Local ecological knowledge; Perceptions; Traditional ecological knowledge; Yangtze paddlefish; Yangtze river dolphin

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CONSERVATION STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE; EXTINCTION; FISHING COMMUNITY; MEMORY; PERCEPTION; POPULATION DECLINE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; RARE SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TELEOST; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD INDUSTRY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; FISHERY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHINA; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FISHERIES;

CHINA; YANGTZE BASIN;

LIPOTES VEXILLIFER; POLYODONTIDAE (FISH); PSEPHURUS GLADIUS; TAKIFUGU FASCIATUS; TENUALOSA REEVESII; TETRAODONTIDAE;

EID: 77956587275     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01395.x     Document Type: Article

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