Fragmentation of Asia's remaining wildlands: Implications for Asian elephant conservation

Animal Conservation

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 347-359

  Leimgruber, Peter ^a   Gagnon, J B ^a   Wemmer, C ^a   Kelly, D S ^a   Songer, M A ^a   Selig, E R ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; WORLD;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANT; ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 5444270757     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943003003421     Document Type: Article

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