Leopard density and determinants of space use in a farming landscape in South Africa.
Panthera pardus
Camera trap
Habitat use
Human-wildlife conflict
Occupancy models
Population density
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 May 2024
08 May 2024
Historique:
received:
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01
2024
accepted:
30
04
2024
medline:
9
5
2024
pubmed:
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5
2024
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2024
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Résumé
Protected areas are traditionally the foundation of conservation strategy, but land not formally protected is of particular importance for the conservation of large carnivores because of their typically wide-ranging nature. In South Africa, leopard (Panthera pardus) population decreases are thought to be occurring in areas of human development and intense negative interactions, but research is biased towards protected areas, with quantitative information on population sizes and trends in non-protected areas severely lacking. Using Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture and occupancy techniques including 10 environmental and anthropogenic covariates, we analysed camera trap data from commercial farmland in South Africa where negative human-wildlife interactions are reported to be high. Our findings demonstrate that leopards persist at a moderate density (2.21 /100 km
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doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-61013-6
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-61013-6
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