Nutritional status of forage plants and their use by wild elephants in South West Bengal, India

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 251-257

  Santra, A K ^a   Pan, S ^a   Samanta, A K ^a   Das, S ^a   Halder, S ^a  

^a WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF ANIMAL AND FISHERY SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Migratory elephants; Nutritive value of wild plants; Wild food plants

Indexed keywords

CROP; ELEPHANT; FORAGE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NUTRITION; PROTEIN; ZINC;

ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; WEST BENGAL;

ANIMALIA; BUCHANANIA LANZAN; DIOSPYROS; DIOSPYROS MELANOXYLON; ELEPHANTIDAE; PTEROCARPUS; PTEROCARPUS MARSUPIUM; SHOREA ROBUSTA;

EID: 56049111087     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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