Illegal bushmeat hunters compete with predators and threaten wild herbivore populations in a global tourism hotspot

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Biological Conservation

• Publication date

  2017-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.BIOCON.2017.04.020
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