African elephant home range and habitat selection in Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa

African Zoology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 37-44

  Shannon, Graeme ^a   Page, Bruce ^a   Slotow, Rob ^a   Duffy, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b DURBAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Elephant; Habitat selection; Range use; Seasonal range

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; HABITAT SELECTION; HOME RANGE; VEGETATION;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ACACIA; LOXODONTA;

EID: 33745455686     PISSN: 15627020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3377/1562-7020(2006)41[37:AEHRAH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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