Anthropogenic and environmental drivers of modern range loss in large mammals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 4024-4029

  Yackulic, Charles B ^a   Sanderson, Eric W ^b   Uriarte, María ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEAR; BIOME; CANIDAE; CANIS LUPUS; CARNIVORA; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HYAENA BRUNNEA; MELURSUS URSINUS; NONHUMAN; PANTHERA; PANTHERA ONCA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES EXTINCTION; URSUS ARCTOS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; MAMMALS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79952758004     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1015097108     Document Type: Article

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