How immunocontraception can contribute to elephant management in small, enclosed reserves: Munyawana population as a case study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Druce, Heleen C ^a   Mackey, Robin L ^a   Slotow, Rob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; ELEPHANT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCONTRACEPTION; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD ANIMAL; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CONTRACEPTION, IMMUNOLOGIC; ELEPHANTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION CONTROL; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 83055173251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027952     Document Type: Article

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