Trophic scaling and occupancy analysis reveals a lion population limited by top-down anthropogenic pressure in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Everatt, Kristoffer T ^a   Andresen, Leah ^a   Somers, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; LION; METHODOLOGY; MOZAMBIQUE; NATIONAL PARK; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREY; TOP DOWN ANTHROPOGENIC PRESSURE; TROPHIC SCALING; ANIMAL; BUFFALO; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BUFFALOES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMANS; LIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOZAMBIQUE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84902603128     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0099389     Document Type: Article

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