Urban wildlife research: Past, present, and future

Biological Conservation

Volumn 155, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-32

  Magle, Seth B ^a   Hunt, Victoria M ^b   Vernon, Marian ^a   Crooks, Kevin R ^c  

^a LINCOLN PARK ZOO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic; Literature review; Publication; Temporal trends; Urban; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; LITERATURE REVIEW; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RARE SPECIES; RESEARCH WORK; TAXONOMY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION; WILD POPULATION;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863850522     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.06.018     Document Type: Review

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