Data from: Climate and the landscape of fear in an African savanna

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drought bottom-up top-down predation risk tradeoff tree density ungulate visibility

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doi:10.5061/dryad.8f13v

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– regardless of grass production – while elephants (too large to be vulnerable to predation) favored sites with many trees. During the drought, howeve

Data from: Hypothesis-driven and field-validated method to prioritize fragmentation mitigation efforts in road projects

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Animal movement Habitat suitability modelling Least-cost corridor Road crossings Road fragmentation mitigation Unpaved road

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doi:10.5061/dryad.rp46p

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, whereas elephants use the entire study area in both seasons. These three species highlighted the need to use species- and season-specific modeling

Data from: Vertebrate community composition and diversity declines along a defaunation gradient radiating from rural villages in Gabon

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Poulson, John

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biodiversity birds mammals richness conservation hunting intensity

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doi:10.5061/dryad.vs97g

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and structure. Several measures of vegetation structure also explained animal abundance, but these varied across taxonomic guilds. Forest elephants were the exception

Data from: Climatic variation modulates the indirect effects of large herbivores on small-mammal habitat use

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Long, Ryan

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Context-dependence Contingency Herbivory Ungulates and elephants Habitat use Climate change African savannas Ecosystem engineering Trait-mediated indirect interactions (TMII) Zoonotic disease risk

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doi:10.5061/dryad.p112b

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indirectly shape small-mammal habitat use by altering the density and distribution of understorey plants; (ii) how these effects vary with climatic cont

Data from: Ecological legacies of civil war: 35-year increase in savanna tree cover following wholesale large-mammal declines

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extinction;Hexagon satellite;bush encroachment;top-down effects;Loxodonta africana;elephants;plant\u2013herbivore interactions;biodiversity loss;Remote sensing;trophic cascade;tree-grass coexistence

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doi:10.5061/dryad.2jj16

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1. Large mammalian herbivores (LMH) exert strong effects on plants in tropical savannas, and many wild LMH populations are declining. Howeve