Testing a model for predicting primate crop-raiding using crop- and farm-specific risk values

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 125-129

  Nijman, Vincent ^a   Nekaris, K Anne Isola ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation; Ethnoprimatology; Human wildlife conflict; Macaca; Trachypithecus

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARBOREAL SPECIES; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CROP DAMAGE; CROP PEST; DATA SET; DATABASE; MODEL TEST; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

SRI LANKA;

MACACA; MACACA SINICA; PRIMATES; TRACHYPITHECUS; TRACHYPITHECUS VETULUS;

EID: 77957922720     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.08.009     Document Type: Article

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