Elephant movement closely tracks precipitation-driven vegetation dynamics in a Kenyan forest-savanna landscape

BACKGROUND: This study investigates the ranging behavior of elephants in relation to precipitation-driven dynamics of vegetation. Movement data were acquired for five bachelors and five female family herds during three years in the Marsabit protected area in Kenya and changes in vegetation were mapp...

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Autores principales: Bohrer, Gil, Beck, Pieter SA, Ngene, Shadrack M, Skidmore, Andrew K, Douglas-Hamilton, Ian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25520813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-2-2

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267703/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25520813
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2051-3933-2-2

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