Home on the range: Factors explaining partial migration of African buffalo in a tropical environment

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Naidoo, Robin ^a   Du Preez, Pierre ^b   Stuart Hill, Greg ^c   Jago, Mark ^b   Wegmann, Martin ^d  

^a World Wildlife Fund United States ^*  (United States)

^b Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

^c World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Namibia   (Namibia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BUFFALO; CULTIVATED LAND; DATA BASE; DECISION MAKING; DRY SEASON; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HERD; MIGRATION; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER; SEASON; SOCIAL ASPECT; TROPIC CLIMATE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; ECOSYSTEM; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NAMIBIA; RIVERS; SEASONS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

SYNCERUS CAFFER; UNGULATA;

EID: 84860502323     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036527     Document Type: Article

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