Browsing by Subject "Elephants"
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Alternative crops as a mitigation measure for elephant crop raiding in the eastern Okavango Panhandle.
(International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 2020-08-10)Elephant crop raiding causes food losses to subsistence farmers in the eastern Okavango Panhandle in Botswana. This study evaluated the effectiveness of using alternative crops such as groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.), ... -
Fish, Floods, and Ecosystem Engineers: Aquatic Conser- vation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana.
(American Institute of Biological Sciences, 2009-01-01)The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. The delta supports a diverse fish fauna that depends on highly seasonal flooding from inflowing rivers, and on the actions of ecosystem ... -
Fish, Floods, and Ecosystem Engineers: Aquatic Conservation in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
(Oxford University Press, 2009-01-01)The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert. The delta supports a diverse fish fauna that depends on highly seasonal flooding from inflowing rivers, and on the actions of ecosystem ... -
Interactions between woody plants, elephants and other browsers in the Chobe riverfront, Botswana
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2005-11)This thesis examines the interaction between woody plants, elephants and other browsers in a semi-arid savanna in northern Botswana, southern Africa. Particularly I studied how woody plants respond to herbivory, how browsers ... -
Rebrowsing by elephants three years after simulated browsing on five woody plant species in northern Botswana
(Southern African Wildlife Management Association (SAWMA), 2005-11-10)Utilization by the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) of five tree species of different acceptability was assessed on trees used three years earlier in a simulated browsing experiment. The experiment included two levels ...