The distribution and numbers of cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) in southern Africa

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Volumn 2017, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Weise, Florian J ^a,b,c   Vijay, Varsha ^c,d   Jacobson, Andrew P ^c,d   Schoonover, Rebecca F ^c,d   Groom, Rosemary J ^c,e,o   Horgan, Jane ^c,f   Keeping, Derek ^g   Klein, Rebecca ^c,f   Marnewick, Kelly ^c,h   Maude, Glyn ^i,j   Melzheimer, Jörg ^k   Mills, Gus ^c,l   van der Merwe, Vincent ^c,h   van der Meer, Esther ^c,m   van Vuuren, Rudie J ^c,n   Wachter, Bettina ^k   Pimm, Stuart L ^c,d  

^a CLAWS Conservancy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f CHEETAH CONSERVATION BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h ENDANGERED WILDLIFE TRUST   (South Africa)

ⁱ Kalahari Research and Conservation group   (Botswana)

^j DENVER ZOO   (United States)

^k LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l The Lewis Foundation   (South Africa)

^m Cheetah Conservation Project Zimbabwe   (Zimbabwe)

ⁿ N/a'an ku sê Foundation ^*  (Namibia)

^o African Wildlife Conservation Fund   (Zimbabwe)

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Author keywords

Cheetah; Crowd sourcing; Distribution; Endangered species; Leslie Matrix model; Southern Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOGEOGRAPHIC REGION; BOTSWANA; CHEETAH; CROWDSOURCING; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; HABITAT; LIVESTOCK; MALE; NAMIBIA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS; TELEMETRY; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 85037676759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.4096     Document Type: Article

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