A multivariate model of stakeholder preference for lethal cat management

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Wald, Dara M ^a   Jacobson, Susan K ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; ARTICLE; CAT; COGNITIVE HIERARCHY MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETHAL MANAGEMENT; MALE; MANAGEMENT; METHODOLOGY; NEW ECOLOGICAL PARADIGM; NON LETHAL MANAGEMENT; NONHUMAN; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; THEORETICAL MODEL; THEORY; TRAP NEUTER RETURN; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMALS; ATTITUDE; CATS; CULTURE; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84899696396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093118     Document Type: Article

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