Twenty years of monitoring of the Vulnerable Farasan gazelle Gazella gazella farasani on the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia: An overview

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Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 50-55

  Cunningham, Peter Low ^a,b   Wronski, Torsten ^a,b  

^a National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development Saudi Arabia   (Saudi Arabia)

^b ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Farasan gazelle; Gazella gazella farasani; monitoring; Saudi Arabia; status

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUNTING; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RED LIST; RUMINANT; SURVIVAL; VULNERABILITY;

FARASAN ISLANDS; JIZAN [SAUDI ARABIA]; SAUDI ARABIA;

GAZELLA; GAZELLA GAZELLA;

EID: 79952933656     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310001298     Document Type: Article

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