J. Grant C. Hopcraft

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used long-term radio-telemetry data to investigate how Serengeti lions (Panthera leo ) distribute themselves with respect to hunting opportunities.

TL;DR: This work uses large herbivore assemblages in African savanna ecosystems to develop a framework that connects environmental gradients and disturbance patterns with body size and trophic structure, and unifies how top-down and bottom-up mechanisms depend on common underlyingEnvironmental gradients.

TL;DR: The model suggests that new forage growth is a dominant correlate of wildebeest migration, and the animals best able to access rainfall and vegetation were retained and produced offspring with similar migratory pathways.

TL;DR: Long-term monitoring data on different components of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem were examined to trace the effects of disturbances and thus to elucidate cause-and-effect connections between them, illustrated the role of food limitation in population regulation in mammals, and distinguished between natural change and direct human-induced change.

TL;DR: Using multiple lines of evidence from 40 years of research in the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, it is found that edge degradation has effectively “squeezed” wildlife into the core protected area and has altered the ecosystem’s dynamics even within this 40,000-square-kilometer ecosystem.