Modelling and assessment of South African elephant Loxodonta africana population persistence

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 4, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 155-163

  Van Jaarsveld, A S ^a   Nicholls, A O ^b   Knight, M H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Elephant persistence; Fragmented populations; Modelling

Indexed keywords

MODELS;

DENSITY-DEPENDENT EFFECTS; ELEPHANT PERSISTENCE; FRAGMENTED POPULATIONS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; POPULATION GROWTH MODELS; POPULATION PERSISTENCES; PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ELEPHANT; GROWTH MODELING; METAPOPULATION; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE;

SOUTH AFRICA;

ELEPHANT; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 0033411263     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1019047830364     Document Type: Article

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