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Estimating population sizes of lions Panthera leo and spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta in Uganda’s savannah parks, using lure count methods
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dc.contributor.author | Omoya, Edward Okot | |
dc.contributor.author | Mudumba, Tutilo | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckland, Stephen T | |
dc.contributor.author | Mulondo, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Plumptre, Andrew J | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-30T23:10:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-30T23:10:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-07 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Omoya , E O , Mudumba , T , Buckland , S T , Mulondo , P & Plumptre , A J 2014 , ' Estimating population sizes of lions Panthera leo and spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta in Uganda’s savannah parks, using lure count methods ' , Oryx , vol. 48 , pp. 394-401 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313000112 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0030-6053 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE: 121909240 | |
dc.identifier.other | PURE UUID: 5da64569-7b93-42a8-8f7d-635bda239db8 | |
dc.identifier.other | Bibtex: urn:e496ec8144ce7a3fbd1c1479cb242288 | |
dc.identifier.other | Scopus: 84903277552 | |
dc.identifier.other | WOS: 000337972400019 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0002-9939-709X/work/73701003 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/6885 | |
dc.description | Funding: United States Agency for International Development | en |
dc.description.abstract | Despite > 60 years of conservation in Uganda’s national parks the populations of lions and spotted hyaenas in these areas have never been estimated using a census method. Estimates for some sites have been extrapolated to other protected areas and educated guesses have been made but there has been nothing more definitive. We used a lure count analysis method of call-up counts to estimate populations of the lion Panthera leo and spotted hyaena Crocuta crocuta in the parks where reasonable numbers of these species exist: Queen Elizabeth Protected Area, Murchison Falls Conservation Area and Kidepo Valley National Park. We estimated a total of 408 lions and 324 hyaenas for these three conservation areas. It is unlikely that other conservation areas in Uganda host >10 lions or > 40 hyaenas. The Queen Elizabeth Protected Area had the largest populations of lions and hyaenas: 140 and 211, respectively. It is estimated that lion numbers have declined by 30% in this protected area since the late 1990s and there are increasing concerns for the long-term viability of both species in Uganda. | |
dc.format.extent | 8 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oryx | en |
dc.rights | © 2013 Fauna & Flora International. | en |
dc.subject | Call-up census | en |
dc.subject | Hyaenas | en |
dc.subject | Lions | en |
dc.subject | Lure count | en |
dc.subject | Population estimation | en |
dc.subject | Uganda | en |
dc.subject | G Geography (General) | en |
dc.subject | QL Zoology | en |
dc.subject.lcc | G1 | en |
dc.subject.lcc | QL | en |
dc.title | Estimating population sizes of lions Panthera leo and spotted hyaenas Crocuta crocuta in Uganda’s savannah parks, using lure count methods | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | Publisher PDF | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Mathematics and Statistics | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Institute | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling | en |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313000112 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2015-07-01 |
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