The empty forest revisited

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1223, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 120-128

  Wilkie, David S ^a   Bennett, Elizabeth L ^a   Peres, Carlos A ^b   Cunningham, Andrew A ^c  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bushmeat; Defaunation; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; BIRD; DECISION MAKING; DEFAUNATION; DEFORESTATION; FAUNA; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MAMMAL; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PESSIMISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; URBAN AREA; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79953181300     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05908.x     Document Type: Article

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