Seasonal and spatial vulnerability to agricultural damage by elephants in the western Serengeti, Tanzania
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DOI: 10.1017/s0030605318001382
Abstract: Abstract In the western Serengeti of Tanzania, African elephant Loxodonta africana populations are increasing, which is rare across the species’ range. Here, conservation objectives come into conflict with competing interests such as agriculture. Elephants regularly… read more here.
Keywords: crop; western serengeti; damage elephants; serengeti tanzania ... See more keywords
Resource selection, utilization and seasons influence spatial distribution of ungulates in the western Serengeti National Park
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DOI: 10.1111/aje.12410
Abstract: Understanding herbivore selection and utilization of vegetation types is fundamental to conservation of multispecies communities. We tested three hypotheses for how ungulate species select their habitats and how this changes with season: first, resources are… read more here.
Keywords: utilization; serengeti national; national park; selection ... See more keywords
Herbaceous plant species diversity in communal agro-pastoral and conservation areas in western Serengeti, Tanzania
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DOI: 10.17138/tgft(7)502-518
Abstract: Agro-pastoralism involves the growing of crops and keeping of livestock as a livelihood strategy practiced by communities in rural areas in Africa and is highly dependent on environmental factors including rainfall, soil and vegetation. Agropastoral… read more here.
Keywords: species diversity; agro pastoral; village; plant species ... See more keywords
How does agro-pastoralism affect forage and soil properties in western Serengeti, Tanzania?
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DOI: 10.17138/tgft(9)120-133
Abstract: The impacts of agro-pastoral activities on soil properties, plus nutritive value and residual standing biomass of herbaceous plants in areas of different land uses in western Serengeti, were evaluated. Vegetation and soil were sampled along… read more here.
Keywords: western serengeti; soil; forage; biomass herbaceous ... See more keywords