Spatiotemporal trends of illegal activities from ranger‐collected data in a Ugandan national park

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2015-10-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Law, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/cobi.12538PMID 25996571
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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