Figure 1.
Survey effort in the Limpopo National Park (LNP), Mozambique.
LNP is bounded to the west by the Kruger National Park in South Africa, characterized by formal protection and high wildlife densities, and to the east by the Limpopo River, characterized by agro-pastoralist settlements. Surveyed grid cells (100 km2) and call-up stations shown overlaid across a gradient of landscape types and human impact. Inset map: Location of LNP (dark grey) in relation to the Greater Limpopo Trans-frontier Park (light grey), including the region to the south of LNP which has been recently seperated by a wildlife barrier fence, and to Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Figure 2.
Spatial distribution of lion site occupancy and locations of call-up detections in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique.
Occupancy estimates are based on the averaged model (∑w>0.95) from 206 (mean = 9/grid cell) surveys of 24 (100 km2) grid cells. Call-up detections are from a total of 43 stations.
Table 1.
β- coefficient estimates for covariates influencing buffalo site use () in order of their summed model weights (∑w).
Table 2.
β- coefficient estimates for covariates influencing bushmeat poaching site use () in order of their summed model weights (∑w).
Table 3.
Model selection procedure for factors influencing lion occupancy () across 24 (100km2) sites in the Limpopo National Park, Mozambique.