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The return of the giants: ecological effects of an increasing elephantpopulation.
The return of the giants; ecological effects of an increasing elephantpopulation.
This was to address concerns that elephantpopulation increase adversely affects other species through depleting their food in key areas close to permanent water.
Culling was suspended in 1994 and by 2006 the elephantpopulation had increased to approximately 12 400 individuals.
Managing heterogeneity in elephant distribution: interactions between elephantpopulation density and surface water-availability.
Elephantpopulation density and other ungulate population densities were estimated for a c. 400-km2 area from road counts.
This suggests that an increasing elephantpopulation is unlikely to deplete food resources for other browsers in such ecosystems.
Managing heterogeneity in elephant distribution: interactions between elephantpopulation density and surface-water availability.
Increase in the elephantpopulation represents the major change over the periods studied here, consequently influencing elephant number at waterholes.
It would therefore not be appropriate to manipulate the elephantpopulation on the basis that it competes for food with impala, kudu and giraffe.
The elephantpopulation in the control scenario collapses to about 50 per cent of its pre-drought level of abundance, while the elephant population in the pastoral scenario increases.
However, little is known on resource partitioning between these coexisting species, and there is concern that the increasing elephantpopulation may deplete food resources for other browsers.
Our results are not intended to provide precise predictions about how the elephantpopulation may change in the future; too many unforeseen circumstances may affect that trajectory.
The concerns that elephantpopulation increase could result in them depleting food for impala, kudu and giraffe thus, negatively affecting their population is not supported by this study.
This comparative approach aims at investigating whether an increasing elephantpopulation induced structural vegetation changes at the landscape scale and whether this in turn affected the structure of ungulate communities.
We used these data to study the relationship between elephant number and water sodium concentration during four time periods with contrasting elephantpopulation numbers and dynamics.
With a total elephantpopulation of about 50,000, that would mean that elephants will not survive very long.
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