Protected areas: Mixed success in conserving East Africa's evergreen forests

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Pfeifer, Marion ^a   Burgess, Neil D ^b,c   Swetnam, Ruth D ^d   Platts, Philip J ^d   Willcock, Simon ^e   Marchant, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c WWF US Conservation Science   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DEFORESTATION; EVERGREEN RAIN FOREST; FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL PARK; POPULATION DENSITY; SUDAN;

AFRICA, EASTERN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FORESTRY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; POPULATION DENSITY; SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS; TREES;

EID: 84863110371     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0039337     Document Type: Article

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