Translocations as experiments in the ecological resilience of an asocial mega-herbivore

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Linklater, Wayne L ^a,b   Gedir, Jay V ^a   Law, Peter R ^c   Swaisgood, Ron R ^d   Adcock, Keryn ^e   Preez, Pierre ^f   Knight, Michael H ^b,g   Kerley, Graham I H ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c PRLDB Modeling   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^e IUCN African Rhino Specialist Group   (South Africa)

^f Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

^g SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL PARKS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DICEROS BICORNIS; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; HABITAT QUALITY; HERBIVORE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; SURVIVAL; ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HERBIVORY; PERISSODACTYLA; POPULATION MIGRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

DICEROS BICORNIS; RHINOCEROS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES; HERBIVORY; PERISSODACTYLA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84856242082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030664     Document Type: Article

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