Global priorities for national carnivore conservation under land use change

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Di Minin, Enrico ^a,b   Slotow, Rob ^b,c   Hunter, Luke T B ^b,d   Montesino Pouzols, Federico ^a,e   Toivonen, Tuuli ^a   Verburg, Peter H ^f   Leader Williams, Nigel ^g   Petracca, Lisanne ^d   Moilanen, Atte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PANTHERA   (United States)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BIRD; CARNIVORE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN; LAND USE; MAMMAL; REPTILE; ANIMAL; CARNIVORY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; REPTILES; RESEARCH; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84962892128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep23814     Document Type: Article

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