Leopard Ecology & Conservation Leopard and Lion Research

Peer-reviewed Publications

LEC Authorship

Finerty, G. E. et al. (2019) ‘Range expansion: Servals spotted in the Kalahari’, Cat News, 69(Spring), pp. 9–11.

Zehnder, A., Henley, S. and Weibel, R. (2018) ‘Home ranges of lions in the Kalahari, Botswana exhibit vast sizes and high temporal variability’, Zoology, 128, pp. 46–54. doi: 10.1016/j.zool.2018.04.001.

Swanepoel, L. H. et al. (2015) ‘Survival rates and causes of mortality of leopards Panthera pardus in southern Africa’, Oryx, 49(4), pp. 595–603. doi: 10.1017/S0030605313001282.

Bauer, D. et al. (2014) ‘Using spoor and prey counts to determine temporal and spatial variation in lion (Panthera leo) density’, Canadian Journal of Zoology-Revue Canadienne De Zoologie, 92(2), pp. 97–104. doi: 10.1139/cjz-2013-0176.

Kerth, G. et al. (2013) ‘Genetic sexing of stock-raiding leopards: Not only males to blame’, Conservation Genetics Resources, 5(4), pp. 1101–1105. doi: 10.1007/s12686-013-9979-4.

Weilenmann, M. et al. (2010) ‘Is translocation of stock-raiding leopards into a protected area with resident conspecifics an effective management tool?’, Wildlife Research, 37(8), p. 702. doi: 10.1071/WR10013.

Schiess-Meier, M. et al. (2007) ‘Livestock Predation—Insights from Problem Animal Control Registers in Botswana’, Journal of Wildlife Management, 71(4), pp. 1267–1274. doi: 10.2193/2006-177.

LEC Acknowledgement

Winterbach, C. W., Maude, G., Neo-Mahupeleng, N., Klein, R., Boast, L., Rich, L. N., Somers, M. (2017) ‘Conservation implications of brown hyena (Parahyaena brunnea) population densities and distribution across landscapes in Botswana’. Koedoe – African Protected Area Conservation and Science, Vol 59, No. 2, a1441 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/koedoe.v59i2.1441.

Kesch, K. M., Bauer, D. T. and Loveridge, A. J. (2013) ‘Undermining game fences: who is digging holes in Kalahari sands?’, African Journal of Ecology, 52(2), pp. 144–150. doi: 10.1111/aje.12096.

Ramsauer, S. et al. (2007) ‘Seroprevalence of selected infectious agents in a free-ranging, low-density lion population in the Central Kalahari game reserves in Botswana’, Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 14(6), pp. 808–810. doi: 10.1128/CVI.00307-06.

Ramsauer, S. (2005) ‘Acoustic communication in lions and its use in territoriality’, Cognition, Brain, Behavior, 9(3), pp. 539–550.