Land sparing, land sharing, and the fate of Africa's lions

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 14753-14754

  Stephens, Philip A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; LION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; LIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84948659634     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1520709112     Document Type: Note

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