Population estimates based on strip transect aerial surveys of large herbivores can aid management decisions if estimates are accurate and precise. Because sampling intensities may influence precision, we simulated survey ...

Elephants occur in landscapes where temperatures can reach 50 °C. Due to their large size they may face physiological problems of dissipating heat during such high temperatures. In spite of this, no one seems to have ...

Previous studies demonstrate that old-growth forest remnants and vegetation regenerating after anthropogenic disturbance provide habitat for birds in a human modified coastal dune forest landscape in northern KwaZulu-Na ...

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) regulates trade in species and their products. The original listing of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Appendix II ...

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Elephants confined to protected areas could affect co-occurring species. We expected measurable deviations in the density, species number, turnover and composition, abundance-incidence and rank-abundance patterns of woody ...

Here we test the predictions of succession in a restoration context to ascertain the validity of succession-based management. Our study took place in seven coastal dune forest sites of various ages regenerating after mining ...

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In regenerating coastal dune forest, the canopy consists almost exclusively of a single species, Acacia karroo. When these trees die they create large canopy gaps. If this promotes the persistence of pioneer species to ...