Does illegal hunting skew Serengeti wildlife sex ratios?

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 419-429

  Marealle, Wilfred N ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a   Holmern, Tomas ^a   Stokke, Bård G ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Africa; behaviour; conservation; giraffe; population dynamics; savannah; sex ratio

Indexed keywords

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; GIRAFFA CAMELOPARDALIS; GIRAFFIDAE; MELAMPUS; STRUTHIO CAMELUS; STRUTHIONIFORMES; UNGULATA;

EID: 79551699254     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/10-035     Document Type: Article

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