As elephant populations shrink,
forest composition and structure will undergo dramatic change
Date: March 12, 2018
Source: Duke University
Summary:
Poaching and habitat loss have
reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001.
This poses consequences not only for elephants but also for the region's
forests, a new study finds. Without intervention to stop poaching, as much as 96
percent of Central Africa's forests will undergo major changes in tree-species
composition and structure as local populations of elephants disappear and
surviving populations are crowded into ever-smaller forest remnants.
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