Resolving management conflicts: Could agricultural land provide the answer for an endangered species in a habitat classified as a World Heritage Site?

Environmental Conservation

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-333

  Smith, Rebecca K ^a   Ryan, Emma ^a   Morley, Emma ^a   Hill, Russell A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cape mountain zebra; diet; Equus zebra zebra; fynbos; habitat selection; population density

Indexed keywords

CAPE MOUNTAIN ZEBRA; EQUUS ZEBRA ZEBRA; FYNBOS; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION DENSITIES;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; LANDFORMS; NUTRITION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CONSERVATION;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; DIET; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FOREST FIRE; GRASSLAND; GRAZING; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORE; HERITAGE CONSERVATION; LIMITING FACTOR; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITIZATION; PROTEIN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TRANSLOCATION; UNGULATE;

DE HOOP NATURE RESERVE; SOUTH AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

EQUIDAE; EQUUS SUBG. HIPPOTIGRIS; EQUUS ZEBRA; EQUUS ZEBRA ZEBRA; POACEAE;

EID: 84855610055     PISSN: 03768929     EISSN: 14694387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0376892911000105     Document Type: Article

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