Journal article
African honeybees as a mitigation method for elephant impact on trees
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Conservation managers are concerned about the impact that African elephants (Loxodonta africana) have on large tree species, necessitating the need for mitigation methods. Elephants actively avoid contact with African honeybees (Apis mellifera subsp. scutellata), staying clear of crop fields surrounded by beehive fence-lines and moving away from the sounds of swarming honeybees. Therefore, our objectives were to test whether the presence of beehives in trees influenced the likelihood of the t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Woolworths-South Africa
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South African National Research Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Biological Conservation Journal website
- Volume:
- 217
- Pages:
- 329-336
- Publication date:
- 2017-11-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-11-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1873-2917
- ISSN:
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0006-3207
- Source identifiers:
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810370
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- pubs:810370
- Deposit date:
- 2018-02-26
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- 2017
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