Four years of vertebrate monitoring on an upper Amazonian river

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 827-849

  Pitman, Nigel C A ^a,c   Norris, Darren ^b   Gonzalez, Jerry Martínez ^a   Torres, Eriberto ^a   Pinto, Fernando ^a   Collado, Hernán ^a   Concha, Wilberth ^a   Thupa, Raúl ^a   Quispe, Edwin ^a   Pérez, Jorge ^a   Flores del Castillo, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a Amazon Conservation Association   (Peru)

^b Fundação Ecológica Cristalino   (Brazil)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal surveys; Hunting; Riparian; Rivers

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DATABASE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUNTING; MONITORING SYSTEM; PROTECTED AREA; RIPARIAN ZONE; RIVER SYSTEM; SAMPLING; TROPICAL FOREST; VERTEBRATE;

AMAZON RIVER; PERU;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; REPTILIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952754787     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-010-9982-y     Document Type: Article

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