Projects Animal Ecology

Distributions of multiple prey species are differentially influenced by terrain and vegetation structure following lion reintroduction in an African protected area
Source: Ecology and Evolution

Vegetation strongly affects lion hunting behavior in South African ecosystems
Source paper in PLoS One.

Animal assemblages are often viewed as a product of the ecosystems in which they live, but in reality they are often the reason an ecosystem looks the way it does. The roles of animals in shaping ecosystems are so important that two special issues recently published in PNAS and Ecography focus specifically on megafauna (literately translated as ‘large animal’) and the important roles they play in ecosystems, as well as what we may have lost through their extinctions across much of the globe.
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