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  1. Centre for Wildlife Studies, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    N. Samba Kumar & K. Ullas Karanth

  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    James D. Nichols

  3. Foundation for Ecological Research, Advocacy and Learning, Morattandi, Tamil Nadu, India

    Srinivas Vaidyanathan

  4. School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Beth Gardner

  5. Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

    Jagdish Krishnaswamy

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Kumar, N.S., Karanth, K.U., Nichols, J.D., Vaidyanathan, S., Gardner, B., Krishnaswamy, J. (2021). Assessing Threats to Ungulates and Management Responses. In: Spatial Dynamics and Ecology of Large Ungulate Populations in Tropical Forests of India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6934-0_4

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