Abstract
The influence of the desert-dwelling elephants on the vegetation of the northern Namib Desert is discussed. The 70 elephants representing the desert-dwelling population in 1983 had no known detrimental effect on the desert vegetation. Monitoring of aerial photographs as well as the relative age structure of large trees in river courses also suggest that for at least the last 20 years these elephants have had no marked detrimental effect on the large tree population. It is concluded that the present number of elephants is well below the region's elephant-carrying capacity.
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