A landscape-based conservation strategy to double the wild tiger population

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 219-227

  Wikramanayake, Eric ^a   Dinerstein, Eric ^a   Seidensticker, John ^b   Lumpkin, Susan ^b   Pandav, Bivash ^c   Shrestha, Mahendra ^d   Mishra, Hemanta ^e   Ballou, Jonathan ^b   Johnsingh, A J T ^f   Chestin, Igor ^g   Sunarto, Sunarto ^h   Thinley, Phuntsho ⁱ   Thapa, Kanchan ^h   Jiang, Guangshun ^j   Elagupillay, Sivananthan ^g   Kafley, Hemanta ^k   Pradhan, Narendra Man Babu ^g   Jigme, Karma ^g   Teak, Seng ^l   Cutter, Peter ^m   Aziz, Md Abdul ⁿ   Than, Utin ^m   more..

^a WORLD WILDLIFE FUND   (United States)

^b Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute   (United States)

^c World Wildlife Fund Nepal Programme   (Nepal)

^d National Fish and Wildlife Foundation   (United States)

^e The Bridge Fund   (United States)

^f NATURE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION   (India)

^g Russian Federation ^*  (Bhutan)

^h VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Forests and Park Services   (Bhutan)

^j NORTHEAST FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^l WWF Cambodia   (Cambodia)

^m WWF Greater Mekong Programme   (Thailand)

ⁿ JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

more..

Author keywords

Connectivity; Conservation; Corridors; Metapopulations; Tiger ecology; Tiger landscapes; Tigers

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053216672     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2010.00162.x     Document Type: Article

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