Maintaining the resilience and functionality of savannas is key to sustaining the ecosystem
services they provide. This maintenance is largely dependent on the resilience of savannas …

Animal movement behaviours are shaped by diverse factors, including resource availability
and human impacts on the landscape. We generated home range estimates and daily …

The erection of peripheral fences around protected areas has been shown to adversely
affect the movement behavior, genetic connectivity and long-term viability of animal …

How predictable is the next move of an animal? Specifically, which factors govern the short-
and long-term motion patterns and the overall dynamics of land-bound, plant-eating animals …

Long-lived organisms are likely to respond to a rapidly changing climate with behavioral
flexibility. Animals inhabiting the arid parts of southern Africa face a particularly rapid rise in …

Globally, migratory ungulates are affected by fences. While field observational studies reveal
the amount of animal–fence interactions across taxa, GPS tracking-based studies uncover …

Conservation governance requires inter-disciplinary approaches aimed at bridging science,
management, and policy divides, which introduces capacity development challenges in …

Ecologists strive for laws that explain interactions between organisms. Myriad hypotheses
have been fundamental in increasing our understanding of plant–herbivore interactions …

In many countries in the southern African region like Botswana, cordon fences have been
put in place to control diseases and to minimise interactions between wildlife and …