Cultural viability of reintroducing the ecologically extinct Alagoas Curassow (Pauxi mitu Linnaeus, 1766) to Northeast Brazil

Journal for Nature Conservation

Volumn 29, Issue , 2016, Pages 25-32

  Gama, Gabriela M ^a   Malhado, Ana C M ^a   Bragagnolo, Chiara ^a   Correia, Ricardo A ^a,b   Ladle, Richard J ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF ALAGOAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Community attitudes; Human dimensions; Local knowledge; Multimodel inference; Reintroduction

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE; REINTRODUCTION;

BRAZIL;

CRACIDAE; MITU; MITU MITU; PAUXI;

EID: 84954549977     PISSN: 16171381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2015.10.005     Document Type: Article

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