Climatic variation and age-specific survival in Asian elephants from Myanmar

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1131-1141

  Mumby, Hannah S ^a   Courtiol, Alexandre ^a,b,c   Mar, Khyne U ^a   Lummaa, Virpi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c WISSENSCHAFTSKOLLEG ZU BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asian elephant; Climate change; Elephas maximus; Mortality; Myanmar; Rainfall; Seasonality; Semi captive animals; Temperature; Timber elephants

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMOGRAPHY; ELEPHANT; HEATING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; RAINFALL; SEASONALITY; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEPHANT; FEMALE; MALE; MYANMAR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELEPHANTS; FEMALE; MALE; MYANMAR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS;

MYANMAR;

EID: 84878047538     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0834.1     Document Type: Article

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