Testing the effectiveness of an international conservation agreement: marketplace forensics and CITES caviar trade regulation.

BACKGROUND: The international wildlife trade is a key threat to biodiversity. Temporal genetic marketplace monitoring can determine if wildlife trade regulation efforts such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are succeeding. Protected under CITES effective 1997, s...

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Main Authors: Phaedra Doukakis, Ellen K Pikitch, Anna Rothschild, Rob DeSalle, George Amato, Sergios-Orestis Kolokotronis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3405056?pdf=render