Elephants in the neighborhood: patterns of crop-raiding by Asian elephants within a fragmented landscape of Eastern India
Loss of forest cover, rise in human populations and fragmentation of habitats leads to decline in biodiversity and extinction of large mammals globally. Elephants, being the largest of terrestrial mammals, symbolize global conservation programs and co-occur with humans within multiple-use landscapes...
Main Authors: | Dipanjan Naha, Suraj Kumar Dash, Abhisek Chettri, Akashdeep Roy, Sambandam Sathyakumar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2020-07-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/9399.pdf |
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