Fine-scale group structure and demography of African savanna elephants recolonizing lands outside protected areas

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 952-961

  Ahlering, M A ^a,b,c   Maldonado, J E ^b,d   Fleischer, R C ^b   Western, David ^c   Eggert, L S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c AFRICAN CONSERVATION CENTRE   (Kenya)

^d DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Dispersal; Loxodonta africana; Relatedness

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; AGE STRUCTURE; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; DISPERSAL; ELEPHANT; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PROTECTED AREA; RECOLONIZATION; RELATEDNESS; SAVANNA; SEX RATIO;

KENYA;

ANIMALIA; ELEPHANTIDAE; LOXODONTA AFRICANA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84865861405     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00896.x     Document Type: Article

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