Elephant management: Why can't we throw out the babies with the artificial bathwater?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 663-665

  Chamaillé Jammes, Simon ^a,c   Valeix, Marion ^b   Fritz, Hervé ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b CENTRE D ETUDES BIOLOGIQUES DE CHIZÉ   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE BIOMÉTRIE ET BIOLOGIE EVOLUTIVE   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; Heterogeneity; Landscape; Population limitation; Savanna

Indexed keywords

CULLING; ELEPHANT; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SAVANNA; WATER MANAGEMENT; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AFRICA; KRUGER NATIONAL PARK; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 35448982388     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2007.00415.x     Document Type: Article

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