Fruit, minerals, and forest elephant trails: Do all roads lead to Rome?

Biotropica

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 392-401

  Blake, Stephen ^a,b   Inkamba Nkulu, Clement ^a  

^a WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Congo basin; Elephant trails; Foraging strategies; Forest structure; Frugivory; Heterogeneity; Loxodonta africana cyclotis

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; ELEPHANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; TROPICAL FOREST;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; LILIOPSIDA; LOXODONTA; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; LOXODONTA CYCLOTIS;

EID: 4444233293     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2004.tb00332.x     Document Type: Article

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