Effects of Private-Land Use, Livestock Management, and Human Tolerance on Diversity, Distribution, and Abundance of Large African Mammals

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1026-1039

  Kinnaird, Margaret F ^a,b   O'brien, Timothy G ^a,b  

^a MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera trapping; Kenya; Laikipia; Large mammals; Livestock; Occupancy; Private lands; Species abundance; Species richness

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOTOURISM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGING METHOD; INCENTIVE; LAND USE; LIVESTOCK; MAMMAL; PASTORALISM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIVATE LAND; RANCHING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TENURE RELATIONS; TRAPPING; UNGULATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DOG; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MAMMAL; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DOGS; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; MAMMALS; OWNERSHIP; POPULATION DENSITY;

KENYA; LAIKIPIA; RIFT VALLEY;

MAMMALIA; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 84868637588     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2012.01942.x     Document Type: Article

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