Use of Market Data to Assess Bushmeat Hunting Sustainability in Equatorial Guinea;Utilización de Datos de Mercado para Evaluar la Sustentabilidad de la Cacería de Vida Silvestre en Guinea Ecautorial

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 597-606

  Allebone Webb, S M ^a,b,c   Kumpel N F ^a,b,d   Rist, J ^a,b,e   Cowlishaw, G ^a   Rowcliffe, J M ^a   Milner Gulland, E J ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Cambodia)

^d ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Africa; Bata; Commodity chain; Hunter; Rio Muni; Snaring; Trader; Wild meat

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; FOREST COVER; HUNTING; MEAT; MONOPOLY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST; VOLUME; VULNERABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; MEAT; TROPIC CLIMATE;

COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; MEAT; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

GUINEA;

EID: 79955800604     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01681.x     Document Type: Article

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