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AUTHOR
Ross T. Pitman
Supplementary material for "Mesocarnivore community structuring in the presence of Africa's apex predator".
SI Appendix. Camera-trapping surveys and data summary; SII Appendix. Model formulation and parameter estimates of the multi-region community occupancy model; SIII Appendix. Multi-region community occupancy model JAGS code.
Mesocarnivore community structuring in the presence of Africa's apex predator
This work was supported by the Peace Parks Foundation; G.C.S. was funded by a doctoral grant from Fundacão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT: PD/BD/114037/2015); L.H.S. was supported by the National Research Foundation, South Africa (UID: 107099 and 115040) and by the African Institute for Conservation Ecology. Apex predator reintroductions have proliferated across southern Africa, yet their ecological effects and proposed umbrella benefits of associated management lack empirical evaluations. Despite a rich theory on top-down ecosystem regulation via mesopredator suppression, a knowledge gap exists relating to the influence of lions (Panthera leo) over Africa's diverse mesocarnivore (less …