Extreme wildlife declines and concurrent increase in livestock numbers in Kenya: What are the causes?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Ogutu, Joseph O ^a,b   Piepho, Hans Peter ^a   Said, Mohamed Y ^b,d,e   Ojwang, Gordon O ^c   Njino, Lucy W ^c   Kifugo, Shem C ^b,f   Wargute, Patrick W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c Directorate of Resource Surveys and Remote Sensing (DRSRS)   (Kenya)

^d Mara Lion Project   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^f NORTHERN RANGELANDS TRUST   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BOVINE; CAMEL; DONKEY; ELAND; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GAZELLE; GOAT; HARTEBEEST; IMPALA; KENYA; LIVESTOCK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RECOVERY; POPULATION SIZE; RANGELAND; SHEEP; WARTHOG; WILDEBEEST; WILDLIFE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ZEBRA;

EID: 84991711552     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0163249     Document Type: Article

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