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    African Journal of Ecology: Volume 55, Issue 3

    257-387
    September 2017
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Policy Piece

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Science–policy interfaces

Jon C. Lovett,  Elias Nkiaka, 
  • Pages: 257-258
  • First Published: 30 August 2017

Original Articles

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Understanding the effect of landscape fragmentation and vegetation productivity on elephant habitat utilization in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya

Tawanda W. Gara,  Tiejun Wang,  Andrew K. Skidmore,  Fadzai M. Zengeya,  Shadrack M. Ngene,  Amon Murwira,  Henry Ndaimani, 
  • Pages: 259-269
  • First Published: 11 July 2016
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Evaluating performance of aerial survey data in elephant habitat modelling

Henry Ndaimani,  Amon Murwira,  Mhosisi Masocha,  Tawanda W. Gara,  Fadzai M. Zengeya, 
  • Pages: 270-281
  • First Published: 10 November 2016
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Liana cutting for restoring tropical forests: a rare palaeotropical trial

Andrew R. Marshall,  Michael A. Coates,  Jennifer Archer,  Exaud Kivambe,  Hamidu Mnendendo,  Samuel Mtoka,  Ruben Mwakisoma,  Ricardo J. R. Lemos de Figueiredo,  Fadhili M. Njilima, 
  • Pages: 282-297
  • First Published: 21 July 2016
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Kori bustard (Ardeotis kori struthiunculus) occurrence in the Serengeti grass plains, northern Tanzania

Emmanuel C. Mmassy,  Robert D. Fyumagwa,  Craig R. Jackson,  Kjetil Bevanger,  Eivin Røskaft, 
  • Pages: 298-304
  • First Published: 17 November 2016
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Assessment of wildlife populations trends in three protected areas in Tanzania from 1991 to 2012

Devolent Mtui,  Norman Owen-Smith,  Christopher Lepczyk, 
  • Pages: 305-315
  • First Published: 17 November 2016
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Historical arthropod diversity patterns direct rehabilitation targets for Robben Island, South Africa, a continental island in a biodiversity hotspot

Tessa J. G. Cooper,  Jessica du Toit,  Elani Steenkamp,  James S. Pryke,  Francois Roets, 
  • Pages: 316-327
  • First Published: 10 November 2016
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Disturbance of the rainforest has the potential to enhance egg parasitism of lepidopteran noctuid stemborers in Kisangani, DR Congo

Onésime M. Kankonda,  Benjamin D. Akaibe,  Boaz Musyoka,  Yaovi A. Bruce,  Bruno-Pierre Le Ru, 
  • Pages: 328-341
  • First Published: 17 November 2016
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Elephant (Loxodonta africana) footprints as habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Kibale National Park, south-west Uganda

Wolfram Remmers,  João Gameiro,  Isabella Schaberl,  Viola Clausnitzer, 
  • Pages: 342-351
  • First Published: 23 August 2016
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Associations of ant species to land cover types and human disturbance in south-west Gabon

Hadrien Vanthomme,  Alfonso Alonso,  Elie Tobi,  Carole Liliane Rolegha,  Francisco Hita Garcia,  Jean Bruno Mikissa,  Leeanne E. Alonso, 
  • Pages: 352-364
  • First Published: 29 December 2016
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Hotspot elephant-poaching areas in the Eastern Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania

Moses Kyando,  Dennis Ikanda,  Eivin Røskaft, 
  • Pages: 365-371
  • First Published: 21 March 2017

Notes and Records

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A snapshot into the spotted hyaena's feeding ecology (Crocuta crocuta) in the miombo woodland of Zambia

Vera Rduch, 
  • Pages: 372-375
  • First Published: 13 July 2016
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Nectar-drinking Elephantulus edwardii as a potential pollinator of Massonia echinata, endemic to the Bokkeveld plateau in South Africa

Leopold Flasch,  Natalie von Elm,  Petra Wester, 
  • Pages: 376-379
  • First Published: 28 September 2016
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First record of the red gum lerp psyllid, Glycaspis brimblecombei Moore (Hemiptera: Psyllidae), in Zambia

Donald Chungu,  Obote Shakacite,  Hope Chama,  Bertha Chitala Chungu,  Keddy Mbindo,  Lishomwa Mulongwe, 
  • Pages: 380-382
  • First Published: 17 November 2016
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Rare observation of the existence and masculine behaviour of maned lionesses in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Geoffrey D. Gilfillan,  John W. McNutt,  Jessica D.T. Vitale,  Hans H. de Iongh,  Krystyna Golabek, 
  • Pages: 383-385
  • First Published: 24 August 2016
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Hunting of a bat-eared fox (Otocyon megalotis) and an adult Thomson's gazelle (Eudorcas thomsoni) by golden jackals (Canis aureus) in the Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Steven E. Temu,  Cuthbert L. Nahonyo,  Patricia D. Moehlman, 
  • Pages: 386-387
  • First Published: 28 February 2017