Large mammal diversity and their conservation in the human-dominated land-use mosaic of Sierra Leone

Verfasser / Beitragende:
[Terry Brncic, Bala Amarasekaran, Anita McKenna, Roger Mundry, Hjalmar Kühl]
Ort, Verlag, Jahr:
2015
Enthalten in:
Biodiversity and Conservation, 24/10(2015-09-01), 2417-2438
Format:
Artikel (online)
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245 0 0 |a Large mammal diversity and their conservation in the human-dominated land-use mosaic of Sierra Leone  |h [Elektronische Daten]  |c [Terry Brncic, Bala Amarasekaran, Anita McKenna, Roger Mundry, Hjalmar Kühl] 
520 3 |a Like elsewhere in West Africa, the landscapes of Sierra Leone are strongly human-dominated with consequences for large mammal distribution and diversity. Sierra Leone is currently going through a phase of post-war recovery, with accelerating development of the mining, forestry, agricultural and infrastructure sectors. As environmental issues are increasingly considered, comprehensive biodiversity information is required. Here we evaluate spatial patterns of large mammal diversity throughout Sierra Leone to make inferences about species persistence. We used systematic line transect sampling for assessing large mammal distribution. GLMs and canonical correspondence analyses were used to evaluate the relative importance of human impact for every species while controlling for environmental gradients and to make countrywide spatial model predictions. We further developed an algorithm to identify core distributional ranges for the most common species. A total of 562km of transects were surveyed and 35 large mammal species encountered. Species diversity was impoverished in the country's south and center and strongly increased towards the north and east. Human impact did not determine the distribution of four species (brushed-tailed porcupine, bushbuck, giant rat, warthog), but was very influential on chimpanzee and yellow-backed duiker occurrence with U-shaped and negative responses, respectively. The remaining species showed mixed responses to human impact and environmental gradients. Predicting species persistence in West African human-dominated landscapes is complex. Pooling of species for land-use planning is therefore not recommended. Our study provides key information for land-use planning to separate areas with post-depletion species assemblages from more diverse regions with high conservation value. 
540 |a Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 
690 7 |a Core distributional range areas  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Distribution  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Hunting  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Line transect  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Post-depletion  |2 nationallicence 
690 7 |a Spatial model  |2 nationallicence 
700 1 |a Brncic  |D Terry  |u World Resources Institute, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Amarasekaran  |D Bala  |u Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Freetown, Sierra Leone  |4 aut 
700 1 |a McKenna  |D Anita  |u Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Freetown, Sierra Leone  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Mundry  |D Roger  |u Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103, Leipzig, Germany  |4 aut 
700 1 |a Kühl  |D Hjalmar  |u Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103, Leipzig, Germany  |4 aut 
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