Bringing the tiger back from the brink-the six percent solution

PLoS Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Walston, Joe ^a   Robinson, John G ^a   Bennett, Elizabeth L ^a   Breitenmoser, Urs ^b   da Fonseca, Gustavo A B ^c   Goodrich, John ^a   Gumal, Melvin ^d   Hunter, Luke ^e   Johnson, Arlyne ^f   Ullas Karanth, K ^a   Leader Williams, Nigel ^g   MacKinnon, Kathy ^h   Miquelle, Dale ⁱ   Pattanavibool, Anak ^j   Poole, Colin ^a   Rabinowitz, Alan ^e   Smith, James L D ^k   Stokes, Emma J ^a   Stuart, Simon N ^l   Vongkhamheng, Chanthavy ^f   Wibisono, Hariyo ^m   more..

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c Global Environment Facility   (United States)

^d WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Malaysia)

^e PANTHERA   (United States)

^f WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Laos)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h WORLD BANK   (United States)

ⁱ Wildlife Conservation Society   (Russian Federation)

^j WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Thailand)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^m Wildlife Conservation Society Bogor   (Indonesia)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TIGER; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIGERS;

EID: 77957908888     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000485     Document Type: Article

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