Abstract
Official journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya. Tropical Agricultural Research publishes complete accounts of research of outstanding significance, together with critical review articles on all aspects of agriculture including agronomy and crop production, horticulture, agricultural biology, food and nutrition, soil and water resource management, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, animal science, biotechnology, plant protection, genetics and plant breeding.Tropical Agricultural Research is now indexed in DOAJ.
Highlights
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is the largest terrestrial megaherbivore in Asia (Santiapillai & De Silva, 1994)
The likelihood ratios were calculated for the site 1 using generated factor class layers and the elephant present-absent map
According to the results of the study, it was shown that the likelihood ratio prediction model could be used in predicting areas suitable for elephants
Summary
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) is the largest terrestrial megaherbivore in Asia (Santiapillai & De Silva, 1994). Survival of the Asian elephant is endangered by habitat loss and conflict with humans over crop raiding (Sukumar 1989, De Silva 1998, Santiapillai & Jackson 1990, Corea, 2006). When considering the human population, Sri Lanka is one of the most densely populated countries (United Nations, 2008). It is a known fact that, the fragmentation and loss of the natural habitats of elephants (Desai, 1998) are considered to be the main cause of Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka (Bandara, 2005). If the existing trend of habitat loss is continued, elephant is on the fast track to extinction (Santiapillai & De. Silva, 1994)
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