Shoot, shovel and shut up: Cryptic poaching slows restoration of a large carnivore in Europe

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1730, 2012, Pages 910-915

  Liberg, Olof ^a   Chapron, Guillaume ^a   Wabakken, Petter ^b   Pedersen, Hans Christian ^c   Thompson Hobbs, N ^d   Sand, Håkan ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b INLAND NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Conservation; Poaching; State space models; Wolf

Indexed keywords

CANID; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ESTIMATION METHOD; INCENTIVE; MORTALITY; POACHING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EUROPE;

AGONIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS;

EID: 84856244301     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.1275     Document Type: Article

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