Individual-based modelling of elephant population dynamics using remote sensing to estimate food availability

Ecological Modelling(2018)

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Abstract
•Energy-budget model of how individual elephants respond to changes in forage.•Population size and structure emerge from model outputs.•Predicts changes in population dynamics induced by climate and land-use change.•Can be adapted for other mammalian herbivores in grassland ecosystems.
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Key words
Approximate Bayesian computation,Elephants,Energy budget,Individual-based modelling,Population dynamics,Remote sensing
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