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Biodiversity and Conservation Challenges in the Alédjo Wildlife Reserve (AWR) in Togo: Insights From Ethnozoological Surveys. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
The present study analyzes wildlife species use indices and a vulnerability in the Aledjo Wildlife Reserve (AWR) in Togo. The Importance Value‐in‐use Index (IVIUsp) indicates that the most valued species are the patas monkey (Erythrocebus patas), the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), and the green mamba (Dendroaspis viridis).
Borozi W, Atakpama W, Assou D, Natta AK.
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Spatial Patterns of Global Peste Des Petits Ruminants Virus and Its Potential Risk Assessment for Various Wildlife Habitats. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study found that according to the analysis of PPR epidemic data from 2007 to 2024, the driving mechanism of key climatic and environmental factors such as temperature seasonality (standard deviation × 100) (Bio4), annual mean temperature (Bio1), isothermality (Bio3), mean diurnal range (Bio2), mean monthly precipitation in March (Prec3), and the ...
Lu G, Jiang F, Zhang R, Guo J, Si L, Jiao W, Liu D, Zhang J.   +7 more
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Mammalian Community Structure Varies With Distance Between Protected Areas in the Omo Valley, Southwest Ethiopia. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study confirmed the conservation importance of the Omo Valley in terms of mammalian diversity, albeit with low detection levels, especially of large carnivores, underscoring the importance of promoting landscape connectivity to maintain population viability across the Omo Valley.
Asfaw T, Gebresenbet F, Sillero-Zubiri C, Leirs H, Gizaw G, Tsegaye A, Abate W, Bauer H.   +7 more
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Lions select larger prey in a Central African protected area with increasingly effective management. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Lions and their prey are threatened across most of their range and especially in West and Central Africa, where scarcity of large prey has been described as leading to a preference for hunting smaller prey in smaller groups. We investigated the changes in prey selection of lions in Zakouma National Park (Chad) and our results show that diet shifts due ...
Fraticelli C, Zayed AA, Leirs H, Bauer H.   +3 more
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Wild Ungulate Prey Size and Feeding Group Demographic Structure Affect Interactions and Per Capita Food Intake of African Pride Lions in East African Maasai Steppe. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
This study used long‐term lion population monitoring data in the Tarangire–Manyara ecosystem to understand how feeding group demographic structure affects per capita food intake for cubs, subadults, adult females, and adult males. Our results revealed that the composition of feeding groups in carcasses variably affects per capita food intake for each ...
Tomeka TO, Kissui BM, Ukio IG, Mushi FR, Mremi RF, Roberts NJ, Holyoak M, Jiang G.   +7 more
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Establishing large mammal population trends from heterogeneous count data. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Valuable data of wildlife population counts in game reserves has been accumulating over time. Counts are yet often of various natures and collected in a haphazard way. As a consortium of managers and methodologists, we have devised reasonable rules for rendering counts comparable and provide a flexible analytical tool for estimating population ...
Pradel R, Renaud PC, Pays O, Scholte P, Ogutu JO, Hibert F, Casajus N, Mialhe F, Fritz H.   +8 more
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A 3D geometric morphometric analysis of the bovid distal humerus, with special reference to Rusingoryx atopocranion (Pleistocene, Eastern Africa). [PDF]

J Anat
We use 3D geometric morphometrics to investigate the functional morphology of the distal humerus in extant bovids, finding that habitat preference, body mass and tribe affiliation have identifiable morphological signals. We then use these results to interpret the ecology of the extinct alcelaphine bovid Rusingoryx atopocranion and the implications of ...
Anderson SC, Kovarovic K, Barr WA.
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Space use of ungulate prey relative to lions is affected by prey species and predator behavior but not wind direction

Ecological Research, Volume 38, Issue 5, Page 639-650, September 2023., 2023
Prey species respond to predation risk by avoiding risky areas, and the riskiest areas tend to be nearer predators. This study looked at factors affecting how prey situate themselves from lions in Addo Elephant National Park and found that lion behavior dictates how close prey get to lions, and preferred prey distanced themselves more from lions than ...
Matt W. Hayward, Gina J. Hayward, Graham I. H. Kerley   +2 more
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Peste Des Petits Ruminants Screening and Diagnostic Tests in African Wildlife in the Context of Rinderpest Eradication (1994–2007)

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) virus causes a major disease in domestic and wild small ruminants. Understanding the role of wildlife in PPR virus ecology is important for PPR control and its eradication targeted worldwide in 2030. Developing diagnostic tools that provide reliable data for PPR detection in wildlife will help monitor wild populations ...
Vladimir Grosbois, Olivier Kwiatek, Nicolas Gaidet, Philippe Chardonnet, Bertrand Chardonnet, Arnaud Bataille, Satya Parida, François Roger, Richard Kock, Geneviève Libeau, Alexandre Caron, Andrew Byrne   +11 more
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Knowledge and perceptions of rural and urban communities towards small protected areas: Insights from Ghana

Ecosphere, Volume 13, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022
Abstract Conservationists recognize that protected areas (PAs) have limited prospects without the involvement and support of local people. People inherently express positive perceptions to nature and support for wildlife conservation. Yet, people in rural and urban communities may differ in their knowledge and perceptions of benefits and costs of ...
Jerry Owusu Afriyie, Michael Asare Opare, Pavla Hejcmanová   +2 more
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