Cat dilemma: Too protected to escape trophy hunting?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Palazy, Lucille ^a,b   Bonenfant, Christophe ^b   Gaillard, Jean Michel ^b   Courchamp, Franck ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FELIDAE; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILD ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CAT; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME;

FELIDAE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CATS; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79960769138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022424     Document Type: Article

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