Can local ecological knowledge be used to assess status and extinction drivers in a threatened freshwater cetacean?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 157, Issue , 2013, Pages 352-360

  Turvey, Samuel T ^a   Risley, Claire L ^b   Moore, Jeffrey E ^c   Barrett, Leigh A ^d   Yujiang, Hao ^e   Xiujiang, Zhao ^e,f   Kaiya, Zhou ^g   Ding, Wang ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Freshwater Dolphin CIC   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

^f China Three Gorges Corporation   (China)

^g NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Fisheries by catch; Incidental mortality; Interview survey; Mortality index; Neophocaena; Yangtze finless porpoise

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AQUATIC ORGANISM; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BYCATCH; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXTINCTION; FISHING COMMUNITY; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; KNOWLEDGE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PORPOISE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

CETACEA; NEOPHOCAENA; NEOPHOCAENA PHOCAENOIDES; PHOCOENIDAE;

EID: 84870983746     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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