Factors affecting intraspecific variation in home range size of a large African herbivore

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1523-1534

  Naidoo, Robin ^a   du Preez, Pierre ^b   Stuart Hill, Greg ^c   Chris Weaver, L ^c   Jago, Mark ^b   Wegmann, Martin ^d  

^a WWF US   (United States)

^b Ministry of Environment and Tourism   (Namibia)

^c WWF in Namibia   (Namibia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

African buffalo; Biotelemetry; Caprivi; GPS collar; Movement; Namibia; Remote sensing; Satellite; Savanna; Syncerus caffer

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CATTLE; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GPS; HERBIVORE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; MOVEMENT; RANGE SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

NAMIBIA;

ANIMALIA; SYNCERUS CAFFER;

EID: 84868588572     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9807-3     Document Type: Article

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