Browsing Biological & Environmental Sciences by Subject "Panthera leo"
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Assessing uncertainty in sighting records: An example of the Barbary lion
( PeerJ , 2015 , Article)As species become rare and approach extinction, purported sightings can be controversial, especially when scarce management resources are at stake.We consider the probability that each individual sighting of a series is ... -
Maintaining the genetic health of putative Barbary lions in captivity: an analysis of Moroccan Royal Lions
( Springer Berlin / Heidelberg , 2009 , Article)The last representatives of the Barbary lion (Panthera leo leo), once numerous in North Africa but exterminated from the wild by the 1940s, are believed to be the captive lions descended from the Moroccan Royal Collection, ... -
No longer locally extinct? Tracing the origins of a lion (Panthera leo) living in Gabon
( Springer Netherlands , 2018 , Article)Lions (Panthera leo) are of particular conservation concern due to evidence of recent, widespread population declines in what has hitherto been seen as a common species, robust to anthropogenic disturbance. Here we use ... -
Revealing the maternal demographic history of Panthera leo using ancient DNA and a spatially explicit genealogical analysis
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2014 , Article)Background: Understanding the demographic history of a population is critical to conservation and to our broader understanding of evolutionary processes. For many tropical large mammals, however, this aim is confounded by ...