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Elephant Poaching and Vegetation Changes in Uganda

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

John Hatton ,
Clare Hobsley  and
Nick Smart
John Hatton
Affiliation:
John Hatton, Clare Hobsley and Nick Smart, Ecology and Conservation Unit, Dept of Botany and Microbiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Clare Hobsley
Affiliation:
John Hatton, Clare Hobsley and Nick Smart, Ecology and Conservation Unit, Dept of Botany and Microbiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Nick Smart
Affiliation:
John Hatton, Clare Hobsley and Nick Smart, Ecology and Conservation Unit, Dept of Botany and Microbiology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
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Abstract

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In the 1970s, under Idi Amin's rule, poaching decimated mammal populations in Uganda and, as a result of the drop in browsing and grazing pressure, uniform scrub and woodland are replacing the species-rich grasslands.

Type
Research Article
Information
Oryx , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , October 1982 , pp. 404 - 405
Copyright
Copyright © Fauna and Flora International 1982

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