Habitat and diet selection by the African elephant at the landscape level : a functional integration of multi-scale foraging process

Abstract Understanding the role of elephant in the structure and functioning of African savanna ecosystems requires a mechanistic understanding of their habitat and diet selection at the landscape scale. To this end a functional approach based on optimal foraging theory was devised. Given a short...

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Main Author: Clegg, B.W.
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10539/7684