You have already added 0 works in your ORCID record related to the merged Research product.
You have already added 0 works in your ORCID record related to the merged Research product.
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.write('<div id="oa_widget"></div>');
document.write('<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.openaire.eu/index.php?option=com_openaire&view=widget&format=raw&projectId=undefined&type=result"></script>');
-->
</script>
Welfare at Multiple Scales: Importance of Zoo Elephant Population Welfare in a World of Declining Wild Populations
In-situ elephant populations have been in decline for much of the last 200 years, driven by an inexorable combination of habitat loss and hunting for ivory, but with more recent and dramatic declines primarily driven by hunting [1]. Consequently, the distribution and sustainability of elephant populations are now better predicted by human factors than ecological ones [2], underscoring the importance of societal factors in the ongoing survival of elephants. Despite growing awareness of the conservation crisis, hunting pressure has not abated. Instead, there has been a recent surge in harvest rates [3,4], more than doubling of harvest since 2007 [5]. The rates are staggering, escalating from an estimated 40,000 African elephants killed in 2011 [4] and 41 tons of ivory seized, to possibly more than 10% of the remaining populations in 2013 (summarised in [6]). In April 2016, the Kenyan Wildlife Service burned the biggest stockpile of ivory since it began burning ivory in 1989, with 105 tonnes of ivory destroyed, representing 6000–7000 poached elephants [7,8]. Similar declines have been seen in forest [3,9] and Asian [10] elephants. The current harvest rate of elephants is unsustainable, creating a conservation crisis of global significance, with an immediate threat to their continued survival [11]. Novel genetic tracing techniques (e.g [6]) and strict anti-poaching law enforcement [5] are vital to conserve the remaining free-ranging elephant populations.
- University of Florida United States
- Florida Southern College United States
- University of Canterbury New Zealand
- University of Tasmania Australia
- UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL South Africa
Library of Congress Subject Headings: lcsh:Medicine lcsh:Science lcsh:R lcsh:Q
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Distribution (economics) Socioeconomics media_common education.field_of_study Ecology Population ecology Geography media_common.quotation_subject Population Wildlife Animal welfare education business.industry Habitat destruction Sustainability business Welfare
Elephants, Population Dynamics, Social Sciences, Social Environment, Land Use, Spatial and Landscape Ecology, Conservation Science, Animal Management, Mammals, Multidisciplinary, Ecology, Geography, Q, R, Agriculture, Community Ecology, Vertebrates, Medicine, Conservation of Natural Resources, Science, Animal Welfare, Human Geography, Formal Comment, Animals, Ecosystem, Demography, Population Density, Population Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Organisms, Biology and Life Sciences, Amniotes, People and Places, Earth Sciences, Animals, Zoo, Population Ecology
Elephants, Population Dynamics, Social Sciences, Social Environment, Land Use, Spatial and Landscape Ecology, Conservation Science, Animal Management, Mammals, Multidisciplinary, Ecology, Geography, Q, R, Agriculture, Community Ecology, Vertebrates, Medicine, Conservation of Natural Resources, Science, Animal Welfare, Human Geography, Formal Comment, Animals, Ecosystem, Demography, Population Density, Population Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Organisms, Biology and Life Sciences, Amniotes, People and Places, Earth Sciences, Animals, Zoo, Population Ecology
Library of Congress Subject Headings: lcsh:Medicine lcsh:Science lcsh:R lcsh:Q
Microsoft Academic Graph classification: Distribution (economics) Socioeconomics media_common education.field_of_study Ecology Population ecology Geography media_common.quotation_subject Population Wildlife Animal welfare education business.industry Habitat destruction Sustainability business Welfare
citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).7 popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.Average influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).Average impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.Average citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).7 popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network.Average influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically).Average impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network.Average Powered byBIP!