Where have all the lions gone? Establishing realistic baselines to assess decline and recovery of African lions

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

(2021) Enrico Di Minin et al.   Nature Communications

Long‐distance African lion dispersal between two protected areas

(2021) Anele U. Matshisela et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Effectiveness of community-based livestock protection strategies: a case study of human–lion conflict mitigation

(2021) Lovemore Sibanda et al.   ORYX

Simulating the impact of Belt and Road initiative and other major developments in Myanmar on an ambassador felid, the clouded leopard, Neofelis nebulosa

(2020) Żaneta Kaszta et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Prioritizing habitat core areas and corridors for a large carnivore across its range

(2020) Ż. Kaszta et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions

(2020) Marc de Manuel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Spatiotemporal Genetic Diversity of Lions Reveals the Influence of Habitat Fragmentation Across Africa

(2020) Caitlin J Curry et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Predicting biodiversity richness in rapidly changing landscapes: climate, low human pressure or protection as salvation?

(2020) David W. Macdonald et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

A century of decline: Loss of genetic diversity in a southern African lion-conservation stronghold

(2019) Simon G. Dures et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Genetic analysis of African lions (Panthera leo) in Zambia support movement across anthropogenic and geographical barriers

(2019) Caitlin J. Curry et al.   PLoS One

Socio-economic predictors of environmental performance among African nations

(2019) Corey J. A. Bradshaw et al.   Scientific Reports

Landscape connectivity modeling from the perspective of animal dispersal

(2019) Milena F. Diniz et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change

(2019) Sandra Díaz et al.   SCIENCE

Metrics and Models for Quantifying Ecological Resilience at Landscape Scales

(2019) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

A camera trap assessment of the forest mammal community within the transitional savannah-forest mosaic of the Batéké Plateau National Park, Gabon

(2018) Daniela Hedwig et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

No longer locally extinct? Tracing the origins of a lion (Panthera leo) living in Gabon

(2018) Ross Barnett et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Prioritizing core areas, corridors and conflict hotspots for lion conservation in southern Africa

(2018) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   PLoS One

A genome-wide data assessment of the African lion (Panthera leo) population genetic structure and diversity in Tanzania

(2018) Nathalie Smitz et al.   PLoS One

More than $1 billion needed annually to secure Africa’s protected areas with lions

(2018) Peter A. Lindsey et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Conservation targets in marine protected area management suffer from shifting baseline syndrome: A case study on the Dogger Bank

(2017) Annabel A. Plumeridge et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Future threats to biodiversity and pathways to their prevention

(2017) David Tilman et al.   NATURE

Quantification of habitat fragmentation reveals extinction risk in terrestrial mammals

(2017) Kevin R. Crooks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The landscape of anthropogenic mortality: how African lions respond to spatial variation in risk

(2016) Andrew J. Loveridge et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Interactions between demography, genetics, and landscape connectivity increase extinction probability for a small population of large carnivores in a major metropolitan area

(2016) John F. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phylogeographic Patterns in Africa and High Resolution Delineation of Genetic Clades in the Lion (Panthera leo)

(2016) L. D. Bertola et al.   Scientific Reports

The predator-prey power law: Biomass scaling across terrestrial and aquatic biomes

(2015) I. A. Hatton et al.   SCIENCE

Lifting baselines to address the consequences of conservation success

(2015) Joe Roman et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Conservation inequality and the charismatic cat: Felis felicis

(2015) E.A. Macdonald et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Fenced and Fragmented: Conservation Value of Managed Metapopulations

(2015) Susan M. Miller et al.   PLoS One

Gene flow and immigration: genetic diversity and population structure of lions (Panthera leo) in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe

(2014) C. Morandin et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

The devil is in the dispersers: predictions of landscape connectivity change with demography

(2014) Nicholas B. Elliot et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The status of savanna carnivores in the Odzala-Kokoua National Park, northern Republic of Congo

(2014) Philipp Henschel et al.   JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY

Integrated landscape management for agriculture, rural livelihoods, and ecosystem conservation: An assessment of experience from Latin America and the Caribbean

(2014) Natalia Estrada-Carmona et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

A global strategy for road building

(2014) William F. Laurance et al.   NATURE

A Metapopulation Approach to African Lion (Panthera leo) Conservation

(2014) Stephanie Dolrenry et al.   PLoS One

Individual Identification and Genetic Variation of Lions (Panthera leo) from Two Protected Areas in Nigeria

(2014) Talatu Tende et al.   PLoS One

Status and Ecological Effects of the World's Largest Carnivores

(2014) W. J. Ripple et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating population connectivity for species of conservation concern in the American Great Plains

(2013) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Genetic perspectives on “Lion Conservation Units” in Eastern and Southern Africa

(2013) J. M. Dubach et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

INBREEDING DEPRESSION INCREASES SUSCEPTIBILITY TO BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS IN LIONS: AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST USING AN INBRED–OUTBRED CONTRAST THROUGH TRANSLOCATION

(2013) Martina Trinkel et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

The size of savannah Africa: a lion’s (Panthera leo) view

(2012) Jason Riggio et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Multi-taxa population connectivity in the Northern Rocky Mountains

(2012) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

UNICOR: a species connectivity and corridor network simulator

(2011) E. L. Landguth et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Biodiversity Conservation, Ecosystem Services and Livelihoods in Tropical Landscapes: Towards a Common Agenda

(2011) Götz Schroth et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Will Elephants Soon Disappear from West African Savannahs?

(2011) Philippe Bouché et al.   PLoS One

Large mammal population declines in Africa’s protected areas

(2010) Ian D. Craigie et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fast stable restricted maximum likelihood and marginal likelihood estimation of semiparametric generalized linear models

(2010) Simon N. Wood   JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY SERIES B-STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY

Ecological correlates of lion social organization (Panthers, leo)

(2010) K. G. Van Orsdol et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Movement behavior explains genetic differentiation in American black bears

(2010) Samuel A. Cushman et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A Rapid, Strong, and Convergent Genetic Response to Urban Habitat Fragmentation in Four Divergent and Widespread Vertebrates

(2010) Kathleen Semple Delaney et al.   PLoS One

Has the final countdown to wildlife extinction in Northern Central African Republic begun?

(2009) Philippe Bouché et al.   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Lions and Warriors: Social factors underlying declining African lion populations and the effect of incentive-based management in Kenya

(2009) Leela Hazzah et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Human population growth and the demographic transition

(2009) J. Bongaarts   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Translocating lions into an inbred lion population in the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa

(2008) M. Trinkel et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Use of Empirically Derived Source-Destination Models to Map Regional Conservation Corridors

(2008) SAMUEL A. CUSHMAN et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Isolation of African protected areas

(2008) William D Newmark   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Accelerated Human Population Growth at Protected Area Edges

(2008) G. Wittemyer et al.   SCIENCE

The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Lion Panthera leo Revealed by Host and Viral Population Genomics

(2008) Agostinho Antunes et al.   PLoS Genetics