A critical comment to D´Cruze and Macdonald (2016)

We argue that the CITES Trade Database, the only public database on wildlife trade, does not reflect the overall number of seizures concerning traffic of live specimens of CITES listed species, and therefore any analysis that does not take this bias into acount may lead the reader to erroneous concl...

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Main Authors: Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Juliana Machado Ferreira, Nadia Moraes-Barros
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Conservation
Online Access:https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=13071
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description We argue that the CITES Trade Database, the only public database on wildlife trade, does not reflect the overall number of seizures concerning traffic of live specimens of CITES listed species, and therefore any analysis that does not take this bias into acount may lead the reader to erroneous conclusions.
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spelling doaj.art-9b00856a413f48a1a23581c1a3c749572022-12-21T17:31:00ZengPensoft PublishersNature Conservation1314-69471314-33012017-09-012115916110.3897/natureconservation.21.1307113071A critical comment to D´Cruze and Macdonald (2016)Ricardo Jorge Lopes0Juliana Machado Ferreira1Nadia Moraes-Barros2Universidade do PortoFreeland BrasilFreeland BrasilWe argue that the CITES Trade Database, the only public database on wildlife trade, does not reflect the overall number of seizures concerning traffic of live specimens of CITES listed species, and therefore any analysis that does not take this bias into acount may lead the reader to erroneous conclusions.https://natureconservation.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=13071
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