elephant population

collocation in English

meaningsofelephantandpopulation

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elephant
noun[C]
uk
/ˈel.ɪ.fənt/us
/ˈel.ə.fənt/
a very large grey mammal that has a trunk (= long nose) with which it can pick ...
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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As a result, steps are being taken to control theelephantpopulation, and culling is the usual method adopted.
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The return of the giants: ecological effects of an increasingelephantpopulation.
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The return of the giants; ecological effects of an increasingelephantpopulation.
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This was to address concerns thatelephantpopulationincrease adversely affects other species through depleting their food in key areas close to permanent water.
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Culling was suspended in 1994 and by 2006 theelephantpopulationhad increased to approximately 12 400 individuals.
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Managing heterogeneity in elephant distribution: interactions betweenelephantpopulationdensity and surface water-availability.
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Elephantpopulationdensity and other ungulate population densities were estimated for a c. 400-km2 area from road counts.
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This suggests that an increasingelephantpopulationis unlikely to deplete food resources for other browsers in such ecosystems.
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Managing heterogeneity in elephant distribution: interactions betweenelephantpopulationdensity and surface-water availability.
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Increase in theelephantpopulationrepresents the major change over the periods studied here, consequently influencing elephant number at waterholes.
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It would therefore not be appropriate to manipulate theelephantpopulationon the basis that it competes for food with impala, kudu and giraffe.
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Theelephantpopulationin the control scenario collapses to about 50 per cent of its pre-drought level of abundance, while the elephant population in the pastoral scenario increases.
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However, little is known on resource partitioning between these coexisting species, and there is concern that the increasingelephantpopulationmay deplete food resources for other browsers.
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Our results are not intended to provide precise predictions about how theelephantpopulationmay change in the future; too many unforeseen circumstances may affect that trajectory.
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The concerns thatelephantpopulationincrease could result in them depleting food for impala, kudu and giraffe thus, negatively affecting their population is not supported by this study.
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This comparative approach aims at investigating whether an increasingelephantpopulationinduced structural vegetation changes at the landscape scale and whether this in turn affected the structure of ungulate communities.
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We used these data to study the relationship between elephant number and water sodium concentration during four time periods with contrastingelephantpopulationnumbers and dynamics.
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With a totalelephantpopulationof about 50,000, that would mean that elephants will not survive very long.
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This is why these countries have tabled their own proposals in order to maintain theelephantpopulationand to reduce the risks.
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Anelephantpopulationexplosion in those countries would damage the habitat on which elephants depend.
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