The lion in West Africa is critically endangered

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Henschel, Philipp ^a   Coad, Lauren ^b,c   Burton, Cole ^d,e   Chataigner, Beatrice ^f   Dunn, Andrew ^g   MacDonald, David ^b   Saidu, Yohanna ^h   Hunter, Luke T B ^a  

^a PANTHERA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f IUCN   (Burkina Faso)

^g WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Nigeria)

^h Nigeria National Park Service   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHY; LION; NONHUMAN; POPULATION SIZE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TAXONOMY; WEST AFRICA;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; BUDGETS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GEOGRAPHY; LIONS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84897441561     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083500     Document Type: Article

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