Conservation outside Protected Areas and the Effect of Human-Dominated Landscapes on Stress Hormones in Savannah Elephants

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 569-575

  Ahlering, M A ^a,b,d,f   Maldonado, J E ^b,c   Eggert, L S ^a   Fleischer, R C ^b   Western, D ^d   Brown, J L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d AFRICAN CONSERVATION CENTRE   (Kenya)

^e SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f THE NATURE CONSERVANCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community based conservation; Fecal DNA; Fecal glucocorticoids; Loxodonta africana; Noninvasive hormone analysis; Protected areas

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; COEXISTENCE; DNA; ELEPHANT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HORMONE; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; OVERGRAZING; PROTECTED AREA; SAVANNA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ELEPHANTS; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK; KENYA; MASAI MARA; RIFT VALLEY;

EID: 84878128739     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12061     Document Type: Article

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