Large vertebrate responses to forest cover and hunting pressure in communal landholdings and protected areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Animal Conservation

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 271-282

  Urquiza Haas, T ^a,b   Peres, C A ^a   Dolman, P M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad ^*  (Mexico)

Author keywords

Communally managed areas; Forest cover; Game birds; Hunting pressure; Large mammals; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ENCOUNTER RATE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FATE; FOREST COVER; GAMEBIRD; HABITAT LOSS; HUNTING; LANDHOLDING; MAMMAL; PROTECTED AREA; SPECIES RICHNESS; VERTEBRATE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; QUINTANA ROO; SIAN KAAN BIOSPHERE RESERVE; YUCATAN PENINSULA;

AVES; MAMMALIA; SIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79957549309     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2010.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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