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

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    2021
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    Devens, Carolyn H
    Hayward, Matt W
    McManus, Jeannine S
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    Apex 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.
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    10.1017/S0030605318001473
    http://hdl.handle.net/10566/7088
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