Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas
- W. Laurance, D. C. Useche, F. Zamzani
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 25 July 2012
These findings suggest that tropical protected areas are often intimately linked ecologically to their surrounding habitats, and that a failure to stem broad-scale loss and degradation of such habitats could sharply increase the likelihood of serious biodiversity declines.
Devastating Decline of Forest Elephants in Central Africa
- F. Maisels, S. Strindberg, Y. Warren
- Environmental SciencePLoS ONE
- 4 March 2013
Analysis of the largest survey dataset ever assembled for forest elephants revealed that population size declined by ca.
Coral assemblages and physico-chemical characteristics of the Whitsunday Islands : evidence of recent community changes
- R. Woesik, T. Tomascik, S. Blake
- Environmental Science
- 1999
The reef-building capacities of the coral communities and the extent of Holocene reef development were inconsistent at L2 and L3, which is interpreted as a sign of anthropogenic effects.
Moving in the Anthropocene: Global reductions in terrestrial mammalian movements
- M. Tucker, K. Böhning‐Gaese, T. Mueller
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 26 January 2018
Using a unique GPS-tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, it is found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one-half to one-third the extent of their movements in area with a low human footprint.
Megagardeners of the forest - the role of elephants in seed dispersal
- A. Campos‐Arceiz, S. Blake
- Environmental Science
- 1 November 2011
Roadless Wilderness Area Determines Forest Elephant Movements in the Congo Basin
This work investigates the ranging behaviour of forest elephants in relation to roads and roadless wilderness by fitting GPS telemetry collars onto a sample of 28 forest elephants living in six priority conservation areas and shows that the size of roadless Wilderness is a strong determinant of home range size in this species.
The ecology of forest elephant distribution and its implications for conservation
- S. Blake
- Environmental Science
- 2002
Genetic evidence suggests that extant African elephants, currently recognised as two sub-species in the genus Loxodonta, should be divided into distinct species; savannah elephants (L. africana) and…
Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo Basin
- S. Blake, S. Strindberg, F. Maisels
- Environmental SciencePLoS Biology
- 1 April 2007
Results indicate that the abundance and range of forest elephants are threatened from poaching that is most intense close to roads, and forest elephant density inside protected areas was correlated with the size of remote forest core, but not with size of protected area.
GPS telemetry of forest elephants in Central Africa : results of a preliminary study
- S. Blake, I. Douglas‐Hamilton, W. Karesh
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2001
Few data exist on the ranging behaviour of forest elephants. A feasibility study on the use of GPS telemetry as a tool to study ranging, seasonal movements and distribution was implemented in the…
Forest buffalo prefer clearings to closed-canopy forest in the primary forest of northern Congo
- S. Blake
- Environmental ScienceOryx
- 1 January 2002
During 1993–2000 the conservation status of forest buffalo Syncerus caffer was investigated in the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park region, northern Congo. Data from dung counts collected during a number…
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