Montgomery, Robert A.; Macdonald, David W.; Hayward, Matt W.(Wiley, 2020-12)
In the process of avoiding predation, prey are faced with potentially fitness-compromising trade-offs that have implications for their survival and reproduction. The nature and strength of these non-consumptive effects at ...
Everatt, K.T. (Kristoffer)(University of Pretoria, 2013-10)
The African lion, Panthera leo, has suffered dramatic population and range declines over the
last few decades and is listed as Vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for the
Conservation of Nature. Quantification ...
Moleon, Marcos; Sanchez-Zapata, Jose A.; Donazar, Jose A.; Revilla, Eloy; Martin-Lopez, Berta; Gutierrez-Canovas, Cayetano; Getz, Wayne M.; Morales-Reyes, Zebensui; Campos-Arceiz, Ahimsa; Crowder, Larry B.; Galetti, Mauro; Gonzalez-Suarez, Manuela; He, Fengzhi; Jordano, Pedro; Lewison, Rebecca; Naidoo, Robin; Owen-Smith, Norman; Selva, Nuria; Svenning, Jens-Christian; Tella, Jose L.; Zarfl, Christiane; Jahnig, Sonja C.; Hayward, Matt W.; Faurby, Søren; Garcia, Nuria; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Tockner, Klement(The Royal Society, 2020)
Concern for megafauna is increasing among scientists and non-scientists.
Many studies have emphasized that megafauna play prominent ecological
roles and provide important ecosystem services to humanity. But, what ...
Westbury, Michael V.; Hartmann, Stefanie; Barlow, Axel; Preick, Michaela; Ridush, Bogdan; Nagel, Doris; Rathgeber, Thomas; Ziegler, Reinhard; Baryshnikov, Gennady; Sheng, Guilian; Ludwig, Arne; Wiesel, Ingrid; Dalen, Love; Bibi, Faysal; Werdelin, Lars; Heller, Rasmus; Hofreiter, Michael(American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2020-03-13)
The genus Crocuta (African spotted and Eurasian cave hyenas) includes several closely related extinct and
extant lineages. The relationships among these lineages, however, are contentious. Through the generation ...
Taylor, William Andrew; Lindsey, Peter Andrew; Nicholson, Samantha K.; Relton, Claire; Davies-Mostert, Harriet T.(Elsevier, 2020-05)
The private wildlife sector in South Africa must demonstrate value in the face of political pressures for economic growth, job creation and food security. Through structured survey questionnaires of landowners and managers ...
Fabregas, María C.; Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Ganswindt, Andre; Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney(Wiley, 2021-06)
The current biodiversity crisis calls for effective conservation measures. However, some measures may have unforeseen negative consequences on individual species. Herding, a management practice currently used in some ...
Van der Merwe, Helga; Van Rooyen, Noel; Bezuidenhout, Hugo; Bothma, Jacobus du P.; Van Rooyen, M.W. (Margaretha W.), 1950-(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2019-04)
Vachellia erioloba is a keystone tree species in the southern Kalahari. This long-term study over nearly four decades tracks two populations in different landscapes (the interior sandy duneveld versus the clayey Nossob ...
Pohlin, Friederike; Buss, Peter Erik; Hooijberg, Emma Henriette; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney(MDPI, 2020-07)
Acidemia represents a major life-threatening factor during rhinoceros capture. The acid-base status during rhinoceros transport is unknown. The purpose of this study was to describe changes in acid-base status during ...
Haswell, Peter M.; Kusak, Josip; Jones, Katherine A.; Hayward, Matt W.(Springer, 2020-05)
While constrained by endogenous rhythms, morphology and ecology, animals may still exhibit flexible activity patterns in
response to risk. Temporal avoidance of interspecific aggression can enable access to resources ...
Veiga, Gabriela N.; Biewener, Andrew A.; Fuller, Andrea; Van de Ven, Tanja M.F.N.; McGowan, Craig P.; Panaino, Wendy; Snelling, Edward P.(Wiley, 2020-09)
This study assesses the functional morphology of the ankle extensor muscle‐tendon units of the springhare Pedetes capensis, an African bipedal hopping rodent, to test for convergent evolution with the Australian bipedal ...
Weise, Florian Johannes; Hauptmeier, Helmut; Stratford, Ken J.; Hayward, Matt W.; Aal, Konstantin; Heuer, Marcus; Tomeletso, Mathata; Wulf, Volker; Somers, Michael J.; Stein, Andrew B.(Frontiers Media, 2019-01-25)
Across Africa, lions (Panthera leo) are heavily persecuted in anthropogenic landscapes.
Trans-disciplinary research and virtual boundaries (geofences) programmed into
GPS-tracking transmitters offer new opportunities to ...
Van den Bergh, Carien; Venter, Estelle Hildegard; Swanepoel, Robert; Hanekom, Catharine C.; Thompson, P.N. (Peter N.)(Wiley, 2020-05)
Rift Valley fever (RVF) is a zoonotic viral disease of domestic ruminants in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula caused by a mosquito‐borne Phlebovirus. Outbreaks in livestock and humans occur after heavy rains favour breeding ...
The African lion, Panthera leo, has, like many of the world’s megafauna, become threatened with extinction over the past century. Loss of habitat and prey, persecution in retaliation of livestock depredation, by-catch by ...
Montgomery, Robert A.; Kissui, Bernard M.; Hayward, Matt W.(Frontiers Media, 2019-10-01)
Lions (Panthera leo) are one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and polarizing species on the
planet (Macdonald et al., 2015; Albert et al., 2018; Courchamp et al., 2018). Human connections
to lions, as functional members ...
CONTEXT : Wildlife tourism has been shown to increase stress in a variety of species and can negatively affect individuals’ survival, reproduction, welfare, and behaviour. In African elephants Loxodonta africana increased ...
Eco‐tourism and human–wildlife interaction can lead to increases in stress, vigilance and aggression in many species, however, studies investigating wildlife viewing are scarce. We present the first study investigating the ...
Fabregas, María C.; Ganswindt, Andre; Fosgate, Geoffrey Theodore; Bertschinger, Hendrik Jan; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney(Springer, 2019-10)
Changes in group composition are not exclusive to zoos and conservation breeding centers. The recent increase in poaching of African rhino species has accelerated the arrival of orphan calves at rehabilitation centers. ...
Population estimates are a fundamental requirement of ecology and conservation.
While capture–recapture models are an established method for producing such estimates,
their assumption of homogeneous capture probabilities ...
Milupi, I.D. (Inonge); Somers, Michael J.; Ferguson, Jan Willem Helenus(Wiley, 2020-03)
We propose improvements for addressing the inadequate sustainable use of wildlife resources in the community‐based natural resource management (CBNRM) programme in game management areas (GMAs) using case study data from ...