Towards the description of livestock mobility in Sahelian Africa: Some results from a survey in Mauritania

PLoS ONE

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2018, Pages

  Apolloni, Andrea ^a,b,c   Nicolas, Gaëlle ^d   Coste, Caroline ^a,b   El Mamy, Ahmed Bezeid ^e   Yahya, Barry ^e   El Arbi, Ahmed Salem ^f   Gueya, Mohamed Baba ^e   Baba, Doumbia ^e   Gilbert, Marius ^d,g   Lancelot, Renaud ^a,b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UMR ASTRE   (France)

^c Institut Sénégalais de Recherches Agricoles   (Senegal)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^e Développement de l Elevage ONARDEL   (Mauritania)

^f Ministere de l Elevage   (Mauritania)

^g FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOVINE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DROMEDARY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GOAT; LIVESTOCK; MAURITANIA; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SHEEP; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; LIVESTOCK; MAURITANIA;

EID: 85041104475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0191565     Document Type: Review

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