Long-term field studies of elephants: understanding the ecology and conservation of a long-lived ecosystem engineer

Mammal Browsers and Rainfall AffectAcaciaLeaf Nutrient Content, Defense, and Growth in South African Savannas

(2015) Benjamin J. Wigley et al.   BIOTROPICA

In the elephant's seed shadow: the prospects of domestic bovids as replacement dispersers of three tropical Asian trees

(2015) Nitin Sekar et al.   ECOLOGY

Combining paleo-data and modern exclosure experiments to assess the impact of megafauna extinctions on woody vegetation

(2015) Elisabeth S. Bakker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elephant (Loxodonta africana) Disturbance to Riparian Woodland: Effects on Tree-Species Richness, Diversity and Functional Redundancy

(2014) Lucas P. Rutina et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

African Elephant Alarm Calls Distinguish between Threats from Humans and Bees

(2014) Joseph Soltis et al.   PLoS One

Incorporating mortality into habitat selection to identify secure and risky habitats for savannah elephants

(2013) C.L. Roever et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Effects of social disruption in elephants persist decades after culling

(2013) Graeme Shannon et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Native ungulates of diverse body sizes collectively regulate long-term woody plant demography and structure of a semi-arid savanna

(2013) Mahesh Sankaran et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

African Elephants Adjust Speed in Response to Surface-Water Constraint on Foraging during the Dry-Season

(2013) Simon Chamaillé-Jammes et al.   PLoS One

Comparative Demography of an At-Risk African Elephant Population

(2013) George Wittemyer et al.   PLoS One

Long-Term Monitoring of Dzanga Bai Forest Elephants: Forest Clearing Use Patterns

(2013) Andrea K. Turkalo et al.   PLoS One

Forest elephants: fission–fusion and social arenas

(2012) Vicki Fishlock et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Characterizing properties and drivers of long distance movements by elephants (Loxodonta africana) in the Gourma, Mali

(2012) Jake Wall et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Landscape-scale effects of herbivores on treefall in African savannas

(2012) Gregory P. Asner et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

A Comparison of Social Organization in Asian Elephants and African Savannah Elephants

(2012) Shermin de Silva et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRIMATOLOGY

Combining multi-scale socio-ecological approaches to understand the susceptibility of subsistence farmers to elephant crop raiding on the edge of a protected area

(2012) Chloé Guerbois et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Gestating for 22 months: luteal development and pregnancy maintenance in elephants

(2012) I. Lueders et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Megagardeners of the forest – the role of elephants in seed dispersal

(2011) Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Beehive fences as effective deterrents for crop-raiding elephants: field trials in northern Kenya

(2011) Lucy E. King et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Association patterns of African elephants in all-male groups: the role of age and genetic relatedness

(2011) Patrick I. Chiyo et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

No risk, no gain: effects of crop raiding and genetic diversity on body size in male elephants

(2011) Patrick I. Chiyo et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Demography of Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus ) at Uda Walawe National Park, Sri Lanka based on identified individuals

(2011) Shermin de Silva et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

A food web perspective on large herbivore community limitation

(2011) Hervé Fritz et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Male African elephants (Loxodonta africana) queue when the stakes are high

(2011) C.E. O'Connell-Rodwell et al.   ETHOLOGY ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Leadership in elephants: the adaptive value of age

(2011) K. McComb et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Acoustic communication in the Asian elephant, Elephas maximus maximus

(2010) Shermin de Silva   BEHAVIOUR

Management intervention affects river-bound spatial dynamics of elephants

(2010) Izak P.J. Smit et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Elephant-induced structural changes in the vegetation and habitat selection by large herbivores in an African savanna

(2010) Marion Valeix et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Density as an explanatory variable of movements and calf survival in savanna elephants across southern Africa

(2010) K. D. Young et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Rapid population growth in an elephant Loxodonta africana population recovering from poaching in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

(2010) Charles A. H. Foley et al.   ORYX

The movement of African elephants in a human-dominated land-use mosaic

(2009) M. D. Graham et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The influence of increasing population size and vegetation productivity on elephant distribution in the Kruger National Park

(2009) KIM D. YOUNG et al.   AUSTRAL ECOLOGY

Genetic relatedness and disrupted social structure in a poached population of African elephants

(2009) KATHLEEN GOBUSH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Where sociality and relatedness diverge: the genetic basis for hierarchical social organization in African elephants

(2009) G. Wittemyer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fluctuations in abundance of large herbivore populations: insights into the influence of dry season rainfall and elephant numbers from long-term data

(2008) M. Valeix et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Do elephants prevent other African herbivores from using waterholes in the dry season?

(2008) Marion Valeix et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

ELEPHANTS AS AGENTS OF HABITAT CREATION FOR SMALL VERTEBRATES AT THE PATCH SCALE

(2008) Robert M. Pringle   ECOLOGY

A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of African Elephants on Savanna Vegetation

(2008) Robert Guldemond et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Resource variability, aggregation and direct density dependence in an open context: the local regulation of an African elephant population

(2007) Simon Chamaillé-Jammes et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY