Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo. This item is unavailable.Ecology and Management of the African Buffalo

This interdisciplinary volume covers the ecology, conservation and management of the African buffalo, one of iconic Africa's Big Five.

Alexandre Caron is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine and wildlife ecologist specializing in the ecology of infectious disease transmission at the wildlife/livestock interface in the African landscape. For the past 20 years, he has coordinated projects linked to Health Ecology, One Health and Sustainability Science in Southern Africa. He is a permanent researcher at CIRAD (French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development).

Daniel Cornélis is a Senior Ecologist specializing in tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Over the past 25 years, he has conducted and coordinated projects and studies on wildlife and natural resource management, including the African buffalo. He is a permanent researcher at CIRAD (Montpellier) and scientific advisor for the Foundation François Sommer (Paris).

Philippe Chardonnet is a Doctor in Veterinary Medicine specialising in tropical animal health and production. He is a Co-Chair of the IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group (ASG) and has over 40-years of experience in wildlife conservation and sustainable use in Africa, Asia, South America and South Pacific. He has co-authored more than 200 publications.

Herbert H. T. Prins is Emeritus Professor of Resource Ecology at Wageningen University and Research (WUR), The Netherlands. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University, USA; Foundation Fellow at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia; and Honorary Professor in Computational Ecology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He has co-authored over 500 publications, co-edited 14 books, and wrote Ecology and Behaviour of African Buffalo (Chapman & Hall, 1996).