Ecological consequences of forest elephant declines for Afrotropical forests

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Conservation Biology

• Publication date

  2018-06-01

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/cobi.13035PMID 29076179
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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