TY - JOUR
T1 - The African lion
T2 - A long history of interdisciplinary research
AU - Packer, Craig
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Packer.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Over the past 50 years, lion research has covered a wide range of interdisciplinary topics involving extensive collaborations with scientists from over a dozen different fields. These collaborations have not only led to greater scientific understanding of disease dynamics, impacts of sport hunting on lion populations, and the interactions of lions and their prey, but also resulted in a large-scale disease-control program in rural Tanzania, new hunting policies in several African countries, widespread adoption of camera-traps as a conservation-management tool, new statistical and economic approaches to broadscale conservation approaches, and innovative local-level conservation interventions.
AB - Over the past 50 years, lion research has covered a wide range of interdisciplinary topics involving extensive collaborations with scientists from over a dozen different fields. These collaborations have not only led to greater scientific understanding of disease dynamics, impacts of sport hunting on lion populations, and the interactions of lions and their prey, but also resulted in a large-scale disease-control program in rural Tanzania, new hunting policies in several African countries, widespread adoption of camera-traps as a conservation-management tool, new statistical and economic approaches to broadscale conservation approaches, and innovative local-level conservation interventions.
KW - Collaborative research
KW - Conservation
KW - Interdisciplinary studies
KW - Lions (Panthera leo)
KW - Long-term studies
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U2 - 10.3389/fevo.2019.00259
DO - 10.3389/fevo.2019.00259
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068616037
SN - 2296-701X
VL - 7
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
IS - JUL
M1 - 259
ER -