Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia

S de Silva, T Wu, P Nyhus, A Weaver, A Thieme… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal
and spatial scales is critical for develo** effective biodiversity conservation management …

[HTML][HTML] Performance assessment of machine learning algorithms for map** of land use/land cover using remote sensing data

Z Zafar, M Zubair, Y Zha, S Fahd, AA Nadeem - The Egyptian Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The rapid increase in population accelerates the rate of change of Land use/Land cover
(LULC) in various parts of the world. This phenomenon caused a huge strain for natural …

Human-elephant conflict: Understanding multidimensional perspectives through a systematic review

S Saha, R Soren - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2024 - Elsevier
In elephant range countries, human-elephant conflict is a major concern. In spite of
numerous efforts at the global level, mitigation of human-elephant conflict remains a …

[HTML][HTML] Is there scope for growth? Map** habitat suitability for Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) across its range in China

Y Chen, N Ding, Y Sun, C **ao, K Shi… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Maintenance of sufficient habitat for large terrestrial mammals in increasingly human-
dominated landscapes is challenging. Wild Asian elephants in China were historically …

Losing the Way or Running Off? An Unprecedented Major Movement of Asian Elephants in Yunnan, China

L Jiang, Y Liu, H Xu - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
In 2021, an unprecedented major movement of Asian elephants in China aroused the
curiosity of hundreds of millions of people around the world. For research objectives, we …

Epidemiology and molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis including a drug-resistant strain associated with mortality of Asian elephants in Nepal …

A Pandit, J Thapa, A Sadaula, Y Suzuki, C Nakajima… - Tuberculosis, 2024 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis (TB) is an emerging threat to the survival of elephants in Nepal. We
investigated the lung tissue samples from nine elephants that died from 2019 to 2022 in …

Connecting tiger (Panthera tigris) populations in Nepal: Identification of corridors among tiger‐bearing protected areas

TR Bhatt, JG Castley, R Sims‐Castley… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat fragmentation and isolation threaten the survival of several wide‐ranging species,
such as tigers, through increased risk from diseases, disasters, climate change, and genetic …

Dynamic occupancy modelling of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reveals increasing landscape use in Nepal

AK Ram, BR Lamichhane, N Subedi, NK Yadav… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Large mammals with general habitat needs can persist throughout mixed used landscapes,
however, human-wildlife conflict frequently leads to their restriction to protected areas …

Spatial segregation between wild ungulates and livestock outside protected areas in the lowlands of Nepal

S Bhandari, RD Crego, JA Stabach - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Understanding how wildlife interacts with human activities across non-protected areas are
critical for conservation. This is especially true for ungulates that inhabit human-dominated …

Centennial-Scale Land-Cover Change on Babeldaob Island, Palau

J Dendy, P Collins, D Mesubed, S Cordell, CP Giardina… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
We used publicly available land-cover datasets (1921, 1947, 1976, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2014)
to assess land-cover change on Babeldaob Island, Republic of Palau. Land-cover data were …