Effectiveness of intervention methods against crop-raiding elephants

Conservation Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 346-354

  Davies, Tammy E ^a   Wilson, Scott ^a   Hazarika, Nandita ^b   Chakrabarty, Joydeep ^b   Das, Dhruba ^b   Hodgson, Dave J ^c   Zimmermann, Alexandra ^a,d  

^a CHESTER ZOO   (United Kingdom)

^b Rare and Endangered Species Conservation Unit   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asian elephant; Chili; Fences; Generalized linear mixed models; Human elephant conflict; Mitigation; Spotlights

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANTIDAE; ELEPHAS MAXIMUS;

EID: 80053499704     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2011.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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