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Establishing the causes of the roan antelope decline in the Kruger National Park, South Africa
Rhidian Harrington,Norman Owen-Smith,Petri C. Viljoen,Harry Biggs,Darryl R. Mason,Paul Funston +5 more
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Increased predation on adult roan due to a build-up in lion numbers, following the zebra and wildebeest influx, seemed to be the proximate cause of the initial sharp decline in the roan population.About:
This article is published in Biological Conservation.The article was published on 1999-08-01. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Roan antelope & Wildebeest.read more
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Effectiveness of terrestrial protected areas in reducing habitat loss and population declines
Jonas Geldmann,Megan Barnes,Lauren Coad,Ian D. Craigie,Marc Hockings,Neil D. Burgess,Neil D. Burgess +6 more
TL;DR: Overall, available evidence suggests that PAs deliver positive outcomes, but there remains a limited evidence base, and weak understanding of the conditions under which PAs succeed or fail to deliver conservation outcomes.
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Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas
Ian D. Craigie,Ian D. Craigie,Ian D. Craigie,Jonathan E. M. Baillie,Andrew Balmford,Chris Carbone,Ben Collen,Rhys E. Green,Rhys E. Green,Jon Hutton +9 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that African PAs have generally failed to mitigate human-induced threats to African large mammal populations, but they also show some successes.
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Fencing for Conservation: restriction of evolutionary potential or a riposte to threatening processes?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify when fencing can and is used to conserve biodiversity, highlight the costs and benefits of fencing for conservation, and make recommendations to ensure appropriate use of fencing in the future.
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Prey preferences of the lion (Panthera leo)
TL;DR: These methods are likely to be useful in assessing competition in sympatric communities of predators, cooperative hunting and predicting predator diets, and will allow us to move beyond descriptive dietary studies to improve the predictive understanding of the mechanisms underlying predator–prey interactions.
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The status of wildlife in protected areas compared to non-protected areas of Kenya.
TL;DR: The study shows the importance of discriminating human-induced changes from natural population oscillations related to rainfall and ecological factors in Kenya's wildlife populations to show the need to quantify the performance of conservation policies and promote integrated landscape practices that combine parks with private and community-based measures.
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Directions in conservation biology
TL;DR: The small-population paradigm has not yet contributed significantly to conserving endangered species in the wild because it treats an erect (smallness) as if it were a cause and hence is of scant theoretical interest.
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Conservation Biology: An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective
Michael E. Soulé,Bruce A. Wilcox +1 more
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Landscapes of the Kruger National Park
TL;DR: Knowledge on the abiotic and biotic components of the Kruger National Park (KNP) system has increased to such an extent, that it was possible to zonate the KNP into landscapes.
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Rainfall, soil nutrient status and biomass of large African savanna mammals
TL;DR: The positive correlation between total large herbivore biomass and rainfall in arid/eutrophic savannas and individual carnivore species suggests that natural populations of large savanna mammals tend to be close to the limits set by their food resources.
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Demography of a large herbivore, the greater kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros, in relation to rainfall
TL;DR: In this article, age-class specific survival rates were estimated by individual registration of the kudus present in each female-young social unit, using natural markings, in two areas of the Kruger National Park differing in mean rainfall.