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

• Samuel A. Cushman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

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• Nicholas B. Elliot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Oxon, United Kingdom

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• Dominik Bauer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Oxon, United Kingdom

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• Kristina Kesch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Conservation, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Laila Bahaa-el-din,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

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• Helen Bothwell,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Arizona University, Department of Biology, Flagstaff, AZ, United States of America

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• Michael Flyman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildlife and National Parks, Gaborone, Botswana

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• Godfrey Mtare,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KAZA TFCA Secretariat, Zimbabwe Country Office, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

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• David W. Macdonald ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: david.macdonald@zoo.ox.ac.uk

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Oxon, United Kingdom

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• Andrew J. Loveridge

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, The Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Tubney, Oxon, United Kingdom

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