Endangered species and a threatened discipline: Behavioural ecology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 111-118

  Caro, Tim ^a   Sherman, Paul W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLLUTION EFFECT;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POLLUTION; REVIEW; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; SOCIOBIOLOGY;

EID: 79951550670     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.12.008     Document Type: Review

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