An estimate of the numbers of forest elephants in Gabon

Keywords

Transect, Stratum, Geography, Forestry, Population density

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• Reliable monitoring of elephant populations in the forests of India: Analytical and practical considerationsDevcharan Jathanna, K. Ullas Karanth, N. Samba Kumar — 2015
• Conservation research in the African rain forests : a technical handbookLee White, Ann Edwards, Katharine Abernethy — 2000
• The value of captive breeding programmes to field conservation: elephants as an exampleBrandie Smith, Michael Hutchins — 2000
• METHODOLOGICAL INSIGHTS: Comparing the precision and cost‐effectiveness of faecal pellet group count methodsDave Campbell, Graeme M. Swanson, J. Sales — 2004
• Resource-use and recursion by a mega-herbivore Elephas maximus borneensisMegan English — 2015
• Foraging site recursion by forest elephants Elephas maximus borneensisMegan English, Marc Ancrenaz, Graeme R. Gillespie — 2014
• Estimating deer abundance from line transect surveys of dung: sika deer in southern ScotlandFernanda F. C. Marques, S. T. Buckland, David Goffin — 2001
• Human impact on wildlife populations within a protected Central African forestAllard Blom, Robert van Zalinge, Eugene Mbea — 2004
• Labor costs and crop protection from wildlife predation: the case of elephants in GabonKendra Walker — 2012
• A STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK FOR MONITORING FOREST ELEPHANTSPeter D. Walsh, Marc Thibault, Yves Mihindou — 2000
• Forest Elephant Crisis in the Congo BasinStephen Blake, Samantha Strindberg, Patrick Boudjan — 2007
• Status of large mammals in the mountain sector of Kahuzi‐Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 1996Bila‐Isia Inogwabini, Jefferson S. Hall, Amy Vedder — 2000
• Estimates of forest elephant abundance: projecting the relationship between precision and effortWalsh Peter D., Lee White, Christian Mbina — 2001
• Population estimates and threats to elephants Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797) in the Mago National Park, EthiopiaYirmed Demeke, Abebe Bekele — 2000
• Resource Wars and Conflict Ivory: The Impact of Civil Conflict on Elephants in the Democratic Republic of Congo - The Case of the Okapi ReserveRené Beyers, John Hart, A. R. E. Sinclair — 2011
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• Dung and nest surveys: estimating decay ratesSinclair Laing, S. T. Buckland, Robert W. Burn — 2003
• Dry season habitat selection by a recolonizing population of Asian elephantsElephas maximus in lowland NepalNarendra Man Babu Pradhan, Per Wegge — 2007
• A double‐observer method for reducing bias in faecal pellet surveys of forest ungulatesKurt J. Jenkins, Bryan F. J. Manly — 2008

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