Estimating leopard density across the highly modified human-dominated landscape of the Western Cape, South Africa

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dc.contributor.authorDevens, Carolyn H
dc.contributor.authorHayward, Matt W
dc.contributor.authorMcManus, Jeannine S
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-13T10:19:51Z
dc.date.available2022-01-13T10:19:51Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractApex predators play a critical role in maintaining the health of ecosystems but are highly susceptible to habitat degradation and loss caused by land-use changes, and to anthropogenic mortality. The leopard Panthera pardus is the last free-roaming large carnivore in the Western Cape province, South Africa. During –, we carried out a camera-trap survey across three regions covering c. , km of the Western Cape. Our survey comprised  camera sites sampling nearly , camera-trap nights, resulting in the identification of  individuals. We used two spatially explicit capture–recapture methods (R programmes secr and SPACECAP) to provide a comprehensive density analysis capable of incorporating environmental and anthropogenic factors.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDevens, C. H. et al. (2021). Estimating leopard density across the highly modified human-dominated landscape of the Western Cape, South Africa. ORYX, 55(1), 34-45en_US
dc.identifier.issn1365-3008
dc.identifier.uri10.1017/S0030605318001473
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7088
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCambridge Universityen_US
dc.subjectCamera trappingen_US
dc.subjectCarnivore conservationen_US
dc.subjectLeoparden_US
dc.subjectWestern Capeen_US
dc.subjectApex predatorsen_US
dc.titleEstimating leopard density across the highly modified human-dominated landscape of the Western Cape, South Africaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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