Search Results - "Masenga, Emmanuel H."
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Heading for the hills: risk avoidance drives den site selection in African wild dogs
Published in PloS one (11-06-2014)“…Compared to their main competitors, African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) have inferior competitive abilities and interspecific competition is a serious…”
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No evidence of handling‐induced mortality in Serengeti's African wild dog population
Published in Ecology and evolution (01-02-2019)“…The disappearance of an endangered African wild dog population from Serengeti National Park (SNP) led to international debate centered around one question:…”
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Butterfly Abundance and Diversity in Different Habitat Types in the Usangu Area, Ruaha National Park
Published in Psyche (Cambridge, Mass.) (28-02-2024)“…Insects are key fauna species that respond quickly to disturbances and environmental changes. They act as good indicators of habitat, community, or ecosystem…”
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Magnitude, Patterns and Composition of Wildlife Roadkill in the Serengeti Ecosystem, Northern Tanzania
Published in African zoology (03-07-2021)“…Globally, traffic associated with roads that pass through protected areas are the cause of many negative impacts on wildlife, such as wildlife roadkill, which…”
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Pastoralist herding efficiency in dealing with carnivore-livestock conflicts in the eastern Serengeti, Tanzania
Published in International journal of biodiversity science, ecosystems services & management (02-07-2016)“…Wild carnivores are often involved in conflicts with humans due to their predation on livestock. We investigated the herding efficiency of pastoralists in…”
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Insights into long-distance dispersal by African wild dogs in East Africa
Published in African journal of ecology (01-03-2016)“…This article presents, for the first time, detailed GPS collar data from two long-distance wild dog dispersal events which are also the longest dispersal…”
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Can Enhanced Awareness Change Local School Children's Knowledge of Carnivores in Northern Tanzania?
Published in Human dimensions of wildlife (02-09-2016)“…We used a four-day program with a pre-test-post-test approach on 355 selected school children to investigate the influence of a wildlife education project on…”
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Evaluating the use of local ecological knowledge (LEK) in determining habitat preference and occurrence of multiple large carnivores
Published in Ecological indicators (01-11-2020)“…•Monitoring large carnivores of large spatial extents can be resource demanding.•Depending on analysis, LEK data can produce comparable results to GPS-collar…”
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