Edge effects and the impact of non‐protected areas in carnivore conservation: leopards in the Phinda–Mkhuze Complex, South Africa

By G. Balme, Rob Slotow, L. T. Hunter. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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Survival rates and causes of mortality of leopards Panthera pardus in southern Africa (2014, background): “Firstly, human-caused mortality among males could have increased intraspecific mortality in females by disrupting long-term social relationships and associated social structure (Stoner et al., 2006; Balme et al., 2010).”
Camera-trapping forest–woodland wildlife of western Uganda reveals how gregariousness biases estimates of relative abundance and distribution (2010, background): “Therefore recent policies allowing trophy hunting of leopards in Uganda (www.cites.org/common/cop/14/inf/E14i22.pdf) seem imprudent in our study area (see also Balme et al., 2009, 2010).”
Leopard prey choice in the Congo Basin rainforest suggests exploitative competition with human bushmeat hunters (2011, background): “Furthermore, Balme et al. (2010) demonstrated, using a monitoring effort very similar to ours, that leopards persist under high levels of anthropogenic persecution, albeit in lowered densities, provided suitable prey is available.”
Evolutionary and ecological traps for brown bears Ursus arctos in human‐modified landscapes (2018, background): “This ‘vacuum effect’ has already been documented in carnivores and may cause edge effects to extend within large protected areas (Balme et al. 2010).”
Panthera pardus (Carnivora: Felidae) (2013, background): “…angasii), red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis), southern reedbuck (Redunca arundinum), and desert warthog in the Phinda– Mkhuze complex, South Africa (Balme et al. 2010); rodents, bush-pig (Potamochoerus larvatus), and red-flanked duiker (Cephalophus rufilatus) in Lope National Park, Gabon…”
Extent and fragmentation of suitable leopard habitat in South Africa (2013, background): “However, both in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa leopards also inhabit non-mountainous areas (e.g. Balme et al., 2010; Henschel et al., 2011).”
Land sharing is essential for snow leopard conservation (2016, background): “Understanding home range size and social organization is critical for predicting the number of animals that can be sustained within conservation areas, and thus for predicting long-term population viability (Balme et al., 2010; Woodroffe and Ginsberg, 2000).”