Habitat Stress and Arterial Disease in Elephants
Habitat Stress and Arterial Disease in Elephants
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大象的栖息地压力和动脉疾病
DOI：
10.1017/s0030605300006682
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发表时间：
1968
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影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
S. Sikes
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作者：
S. Sikes
东非保护区和国家公园的大象管理已成为当今迫切的保护问题之一。在这项对非洲稀树草原大象的研究中，赛克斯博士指出，心脏和动脉的两种疾病，只在低地大象中发现，与肯尼亚察沃国家公园和乌干达伊丽莎白女王和默奇森瀑布国家公园的大象数量开始增加时栖息地的退化直接相关。因此，这两种疾病似乎是自然因素，往往会限制这些保护区的大象数量，她建议那些关心国家公园大象管理的人从这一发现中吸取四个教训。
Elephant management in East African reserves and national parks has become one of the urgent conservation problems of today. In this study of the African savanna elephant, Dr Sikes shows that two diseases of the heart and arteries, found only in lowland elephants, were directly associated with the degeneration of the habitat when elephant numbers began to build up in the Tsavo National Park in Kenya and the Queen Elizabeth and Murchison Falls National Parks in Uganda. The two diseases thus appear to be natural factors tending to limit the elephant populations in these reserves, and she suggests four lessons to be drawn from this discovery by those concerned with elephant management in national parks.