PAPERS & ABSTRACTS 2016

Date Published

Woody plant biomass and carbon exchange depend on elephant-fire interactions across a productivity gradient in African savanna (PAPER)
Authors: Adam F. A. Pellegrini, Robert M. Pringle, Navashni Govender, Lars. O. Hedin

Journal of Ecology

November 8, 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.12668/full

Detection of Quiescent Infections with Multiple Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses (EEHVs), Including EEHV2, EEHV3, EEHV6, and EEHV7, within Lymphoid Lung Nodules or Lung and Spleen Tissue Samples from Five Asymptomatic Adult African Elephants (PAPER)
Authors:  Jian-Chao Zonga,  Sarah Y. Heaggansa, Simon Y. Longa,  Erin M. Latimerb, Sally A. Nofsc*, Ellen Bronsond, Miguel Casarese,  Michael D. Fourakerf, Virginia R. Pearsong*,  Laura K. Richmanb and  Gary S. Haywarda

Journal of Virology

March 2016

http://jvi.asm.org/content/90/6/3028.full

Taking the elephant out of the room and into the corridor: can urban corridors work? (PAPER)
Authors: Tempe S. F. Adams, Michael J. Chase, Tracey L. Rogers, Keith E. A. Leggett
Oryx
May 6, 2016
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/div-classtitletaking-the-elephant-out-of-the-room-and-into-the-corridor-can-urban-corridors-workdiv/4C43E703569F63FEA771EB61D327F4F2/core-reader

Graph theory illustrates spatial and temporal features that structure elephant rest locations and reflect risk perception (ABSTRACT)
Authors: George Wittemyer, Laura M. Keating, Fritz Vollrath, Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Ecography

May 23, 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.02379/full

Evidence of strong spatial segregation between elephant subpopulations in the contiguous Laikipia–Samburu ecosystem in Kenya (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Sandy Oduor, Margaret F. Kinnaird, David Daballen, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, George Wittemyer
African Journal of Ecology

May 11, 2016
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12310/full

Ear Size Helps Elephants Cool Down: Using Clay as an Elephant Model (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Tyler Kilmer, Baylee Kennedy, Kenzie Hull, Adonis Hulbert, Scott Goeppner

Journal of Introductory Biology Investigations

2016
https://undergradsciencejournals.okstate.edu/index.php/jibi/article/view/2077

Development and characterization of microsatellite markers in the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) (PAPER)

Authors: Natalie A. Gugala, Yasuko Ishida, Nicholas J. Georgiadis, & Alfred L. Roca

BMC Research Notes

July 26, 2016
https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-016-2167-3

Welfare at Multiple Scales: Importance of Zoo Elephant Population Welfare in a World of Declining Wild Populations (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Elissa Z. Cameron, Sadie J. Ryan
PLOS One

July 14, 2016
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158701

 

Elephant resource-use traditions (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Victoria Fishlock, Christine Caldwell, Phyllis C. Lee

Animal Cognition

March 2016
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-015-0921-x

 

Generation and validation of new quantitative real time PCR assays to detect elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses 1A, 1B, and 4 (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Taylor Pursell, Jie Tan, RongSheng Peng, Paul D. Ling
Journal of Virological Methods
November 2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166093416300374

Towards understanding isotope variability in elephant ivory to establish isotopic profiling and source-area determination (ABSTRACT)
Authors:  Stefan Ziegler, Stefan Merker, Bruno Streit, Markus Boner, Dorrit E. Jacob

Biological Conservation

May 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716300842

No evidence for an elephant-termite feedback loop in Sand Forest, South Africa (ABSTRACT)
Authors:  D.D.G. Lagendijk A.B. Davies, P. Eggleton,  R. Slotow

Biological Conservation

November 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716303317

 

Prolonged drought results in starvation of African elephant (Loxodonta africana) (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Yussuf A. Wato, Ignas M.A. Heitkönig, Sipke E. van Wieren, Geoffrey Wahungu,  Herbert H.T. Prins, Frank van Langevelde 

Biological Conservation

November 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320716303664

An Efficient Warning System for Human Elephant Conflict (PAPER)
Authors: R. Ashwiny Amala Mary, A. Karthikeyan
IJSRSET 
March 2016

http://ijsrset.com/paper/858.pdf

Tracking the Elephant (Lexodonta Africana) Corridor and the Human-­?Wildlife Conflict in Esilalei Village, A Continuation Study (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Victoria Gray, Cara Cappelletti

Independent Study Project Collection

Spring 2016

http://digitalcollections.sit.edu/isp_collection/2348/

Scaling-Up the Use of Chili Fences for Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict Across Landscapes in Tanzania (PAPER)

Authors: Alex Chang’a*, Nick Souza de, John Muya, Julius Keyyu, Angela Mwakatobe, Lucas Malugu, Humphrey Peter Ndossi, Jonathan Konuche, Raphael Omondi, Aloyce Mpinge, Nathan Hahn, Suzanne Palminteri, David Olson

Tropical Conservation Science

June 1, 2016

http://trc.sagepub.com/content/9/2/921.full

Spatio-Temporal Pattern, Displacement Reasons, and Outcome of Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) Emergencies Attended in Assam, India (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Choudhary, B.; Talukdar, A.; Barman, R.; Bhawal, A.; Boro, P.K.; Basumatary, P.; Ashraf, N.V.K.; Narayanan, A.; Menon, V.

2016
http://repository.kln.ac.lk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14092

Testing the effects of perimeter fencing and elephant exclosures on lion predation patterns in a Kenyan wildlife conservancy (PAPER)

Authors: Marc Dupuis-Desormeaux, Zeke Davidson, Laura Pratt, Mary Mwololo, Suzanne E. MacDonald

PeerJ

February 11, 2016
https://peerj.com/articles/1681/

Predicting Hotspots of Human-Elephant Conflict to Inform Mitigation Strategies in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China (PAPER)
Authors:  Ying Chen, Jorgelina Marino, Yong Chen, Qing Tao, Casey D. Sullivan ,
Kun Shi, David W. Macdonald
PLOS One
September 15, 2016
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162035

Elephant poaching risk assessed using spatial and non-spatial Bayesian models (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Parinaz Rashidi, Tiejun Wang, Andrew Skidmore, Hamed Mehdipoor, Roshanak Darvishzadeh, Shadrack Ngene, Anton Vrieling, Albertus G. Toxopeus

Ecological Modeling

October 24, 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380016302691

Human – Elephant Conflict and Conservation of Elephants in Sri Lanka (ABSTRACT)

Author: Perera, K

August 2016

http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/14061

 

Isotopic evidence of foraging ecology of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) in South China during the Late Pleistocene (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Jiao Ma, Yuan Wang,  Changzhu Jin, Yaling Yan,  Yating Qu,  Yaowu Hu
Quaternary International
October 7, 2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618216307807

 

The Social Value of Elephant Tusks and Bronze Drums among Certain Societies in Eastern Indonesia (PAPER)
Author: Leonard Yuzon Andaya
Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia
2016
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22134379-17201001

 

The Influence of Human–Elephant Conflict on Electric Fence Management and Perception Among Different Rural Communities in Laikipia County, Kenya (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Marcia Van Eden, Edward Ellis & Brett L. Bruyere
Human Dimensions of Wildlife
March 2, 2016
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10871209.2016.1149746

How much Dillenia indica seed predation occurs from Asian elephant dung? (ABSTRACT)
Authors:  Nitin Sekar, Xingli Giam, Netra Prasad Sharma, Raman Sukumar
Acta Oecologica
January 2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X15300461

The Elephant in the Sales Room: Ivory and the British Antiques Trade
Author: Caroline Cox
International Journal of Cultural Property
October 18, 2016
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-cultural-property/article/the-elephant-in-the-sales-room-ivory-and-the-british-antiques-trade/BE8B3734678A9663C98B27DCB75AA83A


Elephant poaching in Niassa Reserve, Mozambique: population impact revealed by combined survey trends for live elephants and carcasses (ABSTRACT)

Authors:  Vernon R. Booth and Kevin M. Dunham

Oryx

January 2016
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/elephant-poaching-in-niassa-reserve-mozambique-population-impact-revealed-by-combined-survey-trends-for-live-elephants-and-carcasses/6AED368705192C3A4C762197DC7E3871

Prevalence of human – elephant conflicts in Amboseli ecosystem, Kenya: Current opinions of local community (PAPER)

Authors: Moses Makonjio Okello, John Warui Kiringe,  Stephen J. Njumbi and James Isiche

International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation

March 2016
http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJBC/article-full-text-pdf/4604D2757902

Differential testosterone response to GnRH-induced LH release before and after musth in adult Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) bulls (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Chaleamchat Somgirdm, Supaphen Sripiboon,  Sittidet Mahasawangkul, Khajohnpat Boonpraser, Janine L. Brown,  Tom A.E. Stout, Ben Colenbrander,
Chatchote Thitaram
Theriogenology
April 15, 2016
http://www.theriojournal.com/article/S0093-691X(15)00676-7/abstract

 

THE DECLINE OF PTOLEMAIC ELEPHANT HUNTING: AN ANALYSIS OF THE CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS (ABSTRACT)
Author: Matthew Cobb
Greece and Rome
September 16, 2016

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/greece-and-rome/article/the-decline-of-ptolemaic-elephant-hunting-an-analysis-of-the-contributory-factors/1BEF25159E2AAAB34D07162FBE5A11C9

Harvesting and chewing as constraints to forage consumption by the African savanna elephant (Loxodonta africana)
Authors: Bruce W. Clegg, Timothy G. O’Connor
PeerJ
September 22, 2016
https://peerj.com/articles/2469/

African Protected Area Conservation and Science – Wire netting reduces African elephant (Loxodonta africana) impact to selected trees in South Africa: original research (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Kelly Derham, Bruce A. Schulte, Michelle D. Henley 
Koedoe 
January 2016
http://journals.co.za/content/koedoe/58/1/EJC191813

Eradication of elephant mortality and injury due to railway accidents through automatic tracking and alert system (ABSTRACT)
Authors:  Nirit Datta, Saurabh Kumar. Ashutosh Mallick, Deepak Punetha
Advances in Computing, Communication, & Automation

2016
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7578856/?reload=true

 

Distribution and load of elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses in tissues from associated fatalities of Asian elephants (ABSTRACT)
Authors:  Katharina Seilern-Moy,, Karin Darpel, Falko Steinbach, Akbar Dastjerdi
Virus Research
July 15, 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168170216300302

 

LOSS DUE TO MAN ELEPHANT CONFLICT IN ASSAM: A PRELIMINARY STUDY (PAPER)
Authors: A. Kar, N. K. Goswami, D. Saharia
Paripex
2016

http://worldwidejournals.in/ojs/index.php/pijr/article/view/1428

Population size estimates and distribution of the African elephant using the dung surveys method in Rubondo Island National Park, Tanzania (PAPER)
Authors: Simon Mwambola, Jasper Ijumba, Wickson Kibasa, Emmanuel Masenga, Ernest Eblate and Linus Munishi
International Journal of Biodiversity and Conservation
June 2016

http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJBC/article-full-text-pdf/2418F7658739

 

Human-Elephant Conflicts in Purulia and Bankura Districts, West Bengal, India (PAPER)
Authors: Kausik Mondal, Nachiketa Bandyopadhyay, Sumit Nath, Salma Haque
Journal of Environment and Sociobiology

June 2016
http://www.informaticsjournals.com/index.php/jes/article/view/6631

 

Success of Rehabilitation of Orphaned Elephant (Elephas maximus) Calves in Sri Lanka (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Perera, B.V.; Jayawardena, K.N.; Prasad, T.

2016

http://repository.kln.ac.lk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14181

Elephant (Loxodonta africana) footprints as habitat for aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in Kibale National Park, south-west Uganda (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Wolfram Remmers,João Gameiro, Isabella Schaberl, Viola Clausnitzer

African Journal of Ecology

August 23, 3016
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12358/full


The retrieval of fingerprint friction ridge detail from elephant ivory using reduced-scale magnetic and non-magnetic powdering materials (ABSTRACT)

Authors: Kelly A. Weston-Ford, Mark L. Moseley, Lisa J. Hall, Nicholas P. Marsh, 
Ruth M. Morgan, Leon P. Barron
Science & Justice
January 2016

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S135503061500115X

 

Common Health Issues of Orphaned Wild Elephants at the Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Jayawardana, B.A.D.S.; Perera, B.V.; Prasad, G.A.T.

2016
http://repository.kln.ac.lk/xmlui/handle/123456789/14182

Can Bees Deter Elephants from Crop-Raiding in an Area of High Human-Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka?
Author: Kylie M. Butler

 

2016

http://repository.kln.ac.lk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/14193/36-41.pdf?sequence=1

The ecological impact of elephant herbivory on vegetation of Atherstone Collaborative Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa
Authors:  M.Q. Seloana, M.J. Potgieter, J.W. Kruger, J.J. Jordaan
South African Journal of Botany
March 2016
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0254629916001952

 

Planning for Palm Oil: Are We Saving Wildlife by Saving Carbon? (Gabon) (ABSTRACT)
Author: Sarah Moore
April 29, 2016
http://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/handle/10161/11917

Responses of African elephants towards a bee threat: Its application in mitigating human-elephant conflict (PAPER)
Authors: Mduduzi Ndlovu; Emma Devereux; Melissa Chieffe; Kendra Asklof; Alicia Russo
South African Journal of Science
Jan/Feb 2016
http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0038-23532016000100022&script=sci_arttext&tlng=en

 

Demography of a population with a long history of poaching and the utility of the individual identification technique as a tool for monitoring intermittently studied elephant populations (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Patrick O. Onyango, Bernard Lesowapir

African Journal of Ecology
March 9, 2016
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12297/full

AN EFFICIENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM TO DETECT ELEPHANT INTRUSION INTO FOREST BORDERS USING SEISMIC SENSORS (PAPER)

Dr. M. Prabu

International Journal of Advanced Engineering Technology 

Jan-March 2016
http://www.technicaljournalsonline.com/ijeat/VOL%20VII/IJAET%20VOL%20VII%20ISSUE%20I%20JANUARY%20MARCH%202016/20167131.pdf

An assessment of human-elephant conflict and associated ecological and demographic factors in Nilambur, Western Ghats of Kerala, southern India (ABSTRACT)
Authors: C. K. Rohini, T. Aravindan, P. A. Vinayan, M. Ashokkumar, K.S. Anoop Das
Journal of Threatened Taxa
2016

http://threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/2536

A Preliminary study on Activity Budgets of Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus Linn.) at Elephant Orphanage (PAPER)

Authors: W.M.P. Samarasinghe and A.M. Riyas Ahamed

Bulletin of Environment, Pharmacology and Life Sciences

June 2016
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ahamed_Mohideen_Riyas_Ahamed2/publication/308723825_A_Preliminary_study_on_Activity_Budgets_of_Asian_Elephant_Elephas_maximus_Linn_at_Elephant_Orphanage/links/57ed101208ae92a5dbd1ee5e.pdf

Impact of African elephant on baobab along a surface water availability gradient in Mana Pools National Park, Zimbabwe (PAPER)

Authors: ONIAS NDORO , CLAYTON MASHAPA, SHAKKIE KATIVU & EDSON GANDIWA

Tropical Ecology

2016

http://tropecol.com/pdf/open/PDF_57_2/18%20Ndoro%20et%20al.pdf

 

Looking for Law in All the Wrong Places? Dying Elephants, Evolving Treaties, and Empty Threats (INTRO)
Geoffrey Wandesforde-Smith
Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 
December 16, 2016

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13880292.2016.1248701?scroll=top&needAccess=true

 

Poaching and the Protection of an Endangered Species: A Game-Theoretic Approach (ABSTRACT)
Adrian A. Lopes and Jon M. Conrad
Strategic Behavior and the Environment
December 15, 2016

http://www.nowpublishers.com/article/Details/SBE-0064

 

Design of a Kinetic Energy Harvester for Elephant Mounted Wireless Sensor Nodes of JumboNet (PAPER)

Authors: Malitha Wijesundara, Cristiano Tapparello, Amalinda Gamage, Yadhavan Gokulan, Logan Gittelson, Thomas Howard, Wendi Heinzelman

https://amalindagamage.com/publications/JumboNet-GLOBECOM16.pdf

 

Stop the bloody ivory trade: exploring the extent to which elephant poaching and the illicit ivory trade is funding al-Shabaab’s terrorist activities (ABSTRACT dissertation)
Emily Hawkes, University of Portsmouth
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > Institute of Criminal Justice Studies
October 2016

http://eprints.port.ac.uk/22391/


ELEPHANT-HUMAN WILDLIFE CONFLICT – THE ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) CONFLICT AND LIVESTOCK NUMBER FACTOR IN TSAVO CONSERVATION AREA, KENYA. A CASE STUDY (ABSTRACT dissertation)

Felix Mdamu
University of Central Lancashire
2016
http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/14938/

 

Assessment of the Distribution of Herbivores in the Elephant Corridors, Mettupalayam Forest Range, Tamil Nadu, India (PAPER)

Manoj K, Raghavan and Allwin B

Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences

2016

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Boon_Allwin/publication/309730612_Assessment_of_the_Distribution_of_Herbivores_in_the_Elephant_Corridors_Mettupalayam_Forest_Range_Tamil_Nadu_India/links/581ffa4e08ae40da2cb2570d.pdf

 

Macroanatomy of the Bones of Thoracic Limb of an Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) (PAPER)

Authors: A. S. M. Lutful Ahasan; Md. Abul Quasem; Mohammad Lutfur Rahman; Rubyath Binte Hasan; A. S. M. Golam Kibria & Subrata Kumar Shil

International Journal of Morphology

2016

http://www.intjmorphol.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/art_16_343.pdf

 

Application of Geo informatics for wild elephant habitat in Thap Lan national park (PAPER)

  1. Srisuwan, and W. Phanurak

International Conference on Tropical Animal Science and Production (TASP 2016) 

July 2016

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sumiati_Sumiati/publication/308160771_Performance_and_production_of_functional_duck’s_egg_fed_diets_containing_Indigofera_zollingeriana_leaves_meal_and_Lemuru_fish_oil/links/57db97bf08ae4e6f1843aa02.pdf#page=20

 

Evaluating performance of aerial survey data in elephant habitat modelling (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Henry Ndaimani, Amon Murwira, Mhosisi Masocha, Tawanda W. Gara,
Fadzai M. Zengeya

African Journal of Ecology

November 10, 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aje.12348/full

 

Humans and elephants as treefall drivers in African savannas (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Pj Mograbi, Gp Asner, Etf Witkowski, Bfn Erasmus, Kj Wessels,
R Mathieu, Nr Vaughn

Ecography

November 10, 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.02549/full

 

Unmanned aerial vehicles mitigate human–elephant conflict on the borders of Tanzanian Parks: a case study (ABSTRACT)

Nathan Hahn, Angela Mwakatobe, Jonathan Konuche, Nadia de Souza

Oryx

November 2016

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/oryx/article/unmanned-aerial-vehicles-mitigate-humanelephant-conflict-on-the-borders-of-tanzanian-parks-a-case-study/3BFA919F001CC117888833DE8448FEC4

 

Vertebrate herbivores are the main cause of seedling mortality in a logged African rainforest—implications for forest restoration (ABSTRACT)
Authors: Tiina Piiroinen, Anu Valtonen, Heikki Roininen

Restoration Ecology

November 2, 2016

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rec.12460/full

 

Threats to the Conservation of Asian Elephants: A review study 

Lee Ee Ling, Mariani Ariffin & Latifah Abd Manaf

in Journal of Governance and Development

June 2016 (page 125)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad_Anshari/publication/309391135_Big_Data_and_ICT_Readiness_Index_for_ASEAN_Economic_Community/links/580dc01c08aea1064c66c74e.pdf#page=125

 

Evolutionary biology: How elephants beat cancer (PAPER)
Stephen J Gaughran, Evlyn Pless & Stephen C Stearns

eLife

October 31, 2016

https://elifesciences.org/content/5/e21864

 

Taking the elephant out of the room and into the corridor: can urban corridors work? (PAPER)
Authors: TEMPE S. F. ADAMS, MICHAEL J. CHASE, TRACEY L. ROGERS and KEITH E. A. LEGGETT

Oryx 

May 2016

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3aK6jwOKjlwOGt1TUdSSmtscEk/view?usp=sharing