Tools and terms for understanding illegal wildlife trade
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Quantitative methods of identifying the key nodes in the illegal wildlife trade network.
Innovative approaches are needed to combat the illegal trade in wildlife. Here, we used network analysis and a new database, HealthMap Wildlife Trade, to identify the key nodes (countries) that support the illegal wildlife trade. We identified key exporters and importers from the number of shipments a country sent and received and from the number of connections a country had to other countries ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1540-9295
DOI: 10.1002/fee.1325