Shining the spotlight on small mammalian carnivores: Global status and threats

C Marneweck, AR Butler, LC Gigliotti, SN Harris… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Small mammalian carnivores (Carnivora< 16 kg) carry out important roles in ecosystems,
such as influencing ecosystem structure and providing numerous ecosystem services …

DNA detective: a review of molecular approaches to wildlife forensics

EA Alacs, A Georges, NN FitzSimmons… - … science, medicine, and …, 2010 - Springer
Illegal trade of wildlife is growing internationally and is worth more than USD $20 billion per
year. DNA technologies are well suited to detect and provide evidence for cases of illicit …

A guide to the mammals of China

AT Smith, D Lunde, RS Hoffmann, Y **e - 2010 - torrossa.com
A Guide to the Mammals of China is an outgrowth of the desire of the Biodiversity Working
Group (BWG) of the China Council for International Cooperation in Environment and …

The impact of hunting on the mammalian fauna of tropical Asian forests

RT Corlett - Biotropica, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
People have hunted mammals in tropical Asian forests for at least 40,000 yr. This period has
seen one confirmed global extinction (the giant pangolin, Manis palaeojavanica) and range …

Ethnozoology: a brief introduction

RRN Alves, WMS Souto - Ethnobiology and conservation, 2015 - ethnobioconservation.com
Connections between animals and humans date back thousands of years, and cultures all
over the world have developed characteristic ways of interacting with the regional fauna …

[KİTAP][B] Harvesting the biosphere: what we have taken from nature

V Smil - 2012 - books.google.com
An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of
living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production. The biosphere—the …

Quantifying the Asian turtle crisis: market surveys in southern China, 2000–2003

SM Cheung, D Dudgeon - Aquatic Conservation: Marine and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
A total of 950 251 individuals of 157 turtle species were recorded during a 35-month survey
of the turtle trade in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, southern China. All but two of …

China's environmental challenges and implications for the world

J Liu, PH Raven - Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
After three decades of exceptional economic growth, China has become a global economic
powerhouse. As the economy has grown, though, so have China's environmental …

Are Himalayan ecosystems facing hidden collapse? Assessing the drivers and impacts of change to aid conservation, restoration and conflict resolution challenges

S Dhyani - Biodiversity and Conservation, 2023 - Springer
The Himalayas are a global hotspot for biodiversity and endemism, and yet the health of its
natural ecosystems is deteriorating rapidly. Natural ecosystems across the Himalayas are …

Using local ecological knowledge to determine status and threats of the Critically Endangered Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) in Hainan, China

HC Nash, MHG Wong, ST Turvey - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
The use of robust ecological data to make evidence-based management decisions for highly
threatened species is often limited by data availability, and local ecological knowledge …