Elephant Loxodonta africana driven woodland conversion to shrubland improves dry-season browse availability for impalas Aepyceros melampus

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-213

  Rutina, Lucas P ^a,b   Moe, Stein R ^b   Swenson, Jon E ^b  

^a Department of Wildlife and National Parks ^*  (Botswana)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Botswana; Browsing ecology; Habitat modification; Savanna woodland

Indexed keywords

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; BAIKIAEA; CAPPARIS; COMBRETUM; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA;

EID: 25844472381     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2005)11[207:ELADWC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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