Elephants also like coffee: Trends and drivers of human-elephant conflicts in coffee agroforestry landscapes of Kodagu, Western Ghats, India

Environmental Management

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 789-801

  Bal, P ^a,b   Nath, C D ^a   Nanaya, K M ^a   Kushalappa, C G ^c   Garcia, C ^a,d,e  

^a FRENCH INSTITUTE OF PONDICHERRY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (India)

^d CIRAD   (France)

^e CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Asian elephant; Coffee estates; Crop raiding; Dung analysis; Wicked problem

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; AGROFORESTRY SYSTEM; ASIAN ELEPHANT; COFFEE PLANTATION; COMBINED EFFECT; COMPENSATION SCHEME; CONFLICT SITUATION; DUNG ANALYSIS; FOREST DEPARTMENT; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LARGE POPULATION; MITIGATION STRATEGY; PHYSICAL FEATURES; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SHARED UNDERSTANDING; TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; WICKED PROBLEMS;

ELECTRIC WIRE; FENCES; FORESTRY; FRUITS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

AGROFORESTRY; COFFEE; CULTIVATION; ELEPHANT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; STAKEHOLDER;

ADAPTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; COFFEE; ELEPHANT; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INDIA; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; WILD ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; COFFEE; ELEPHANTS; HUMANS; INDIA; POPULATION DENSITY; TREES;

ANIMALS; CABLES; COFFEE; FARM CROPS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; INDIA; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIRE;

INDIA; KARNATAKA; KODAGU; WESTERN GHATS;

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 79959373802     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-011-9636-1     Document Type: Article

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