Facilitation of a free-roaming apex predator in working lands: evaluating factors that influence leopard spatial dynamics and prey availability in a South African biodiversity hotspot.

Eugene Greyling, Jessica Comley, Michael I Cherry, Alison J Leslie, Lana Müller

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Article in PeerJ, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in

1citing papers in PubMed

2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field

1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

Leopard density and the ecological and anthropogenic factors influencing density in a mixed-use landscape in the Western Cape, South Africa.PloS one · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Eugene Greyling *Department of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-1471-9545

Jessica Comley *Wildlife and Reserve Management Research Group, University of Mpumalanga, Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-3043-7022

Michael I CherryDepartment of Botany & Zoology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.

Alison J LeslieDepartment of Conservation Ecology & Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa.

Lana MüllerThe Cape Leopard Trust, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-7842-2041

Stellenbosch University · ZACape Leopard Trust · ZAUniversiti Brunei Darussalam · BN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Apex predators ideally require vast intact spaces that support sufficient prey abundances to sustain them. In a developing world, however, it is becoming extremely difficult to maintain large enough areas to facilitate apex predators outside of protected regions. Free-roaming leopards (

Indexed as

PantheraAnimalsAnimals, WildBiodiversityHumansPapio ursinusPredatory BehaviorSouth AfricaCamera-trappingCommunity structureHuman-wildlife conflictLeopardsOccupancy modellingPredatorPreySpace-useSpecies diversityTransformed landscape

Identifiers

PMID36718440

DOI10.7717/peerj.14575

PMCPMC9884037

OpenAlexW4317934647

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