The response of elephants to the spatial heterogeneity of vegetation in a Southern African agricultural landscape

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-234

  Murwira, Amon ^a   Skidmore, Andrew K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

African elephant; Dominant scale; Intensity; NDVI; Spatial heterogeneity; Windowed variogram

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ELEPHANT; HABITAT USE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NDVI; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

AFRICA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; SEBUNGWE; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WORLD; ZIMBABWE;

ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 21744447850     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-004-3159-6     Document Type: Article

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