Effects of Landscape Features on the Distribution and Sustainability of Ungulate Hunting in Northern Congo;Efectos de las Características del Paisaje sobre la Distribución y Sustentabilidad de la Cacería de Ungulados en el Norte de Congo

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 514-525

  Mockrin, Miranda H ^a   Rockwell, Robert F ^b   Redford, Kent H ^c   Keuler, Nicholas S ^d  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Africa; Congo; Duiker; Hunting; Source sink; Ungulate

Indexed keywords

HABITAT CONSERVATION; HUNTING; MIXED FOREST; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABILITY; TROPICAL FOREST; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOVIDS; CONGO; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECREATION; TREE;

ANIMALS; CONGO; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECREATION; RUMINANTS; TREES;

CONGO;

ANIMALIA; GILBERTIODENDRON DEWEVREI; UNGULATA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79955848208     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01660.x     Document Type: Article

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