Integrating sustainable hunting in biodiversity protection in central Africa: Hot spots, weak spots, and strong spots

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Fa, John E ^a,b   Olivero, Jesús ^b   Farfán, Miguel Ángel ^b   Márquez, Ana Luz ^b   Vargas, Juan Mario ^b   Real, Raimundo ^b   Nasi, Robert ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^c Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ^*  (Indonesia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUNTING; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

AFRICA, CENTRAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84910672529     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112367     Document Type: Article

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