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Conservation biology: lion attacks on humans in TanzaniaCraig Packer
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 436:927-8. 2005..Our findings provide an important starting point for devising strategies to reduce the risk to rural Tanzanians of lion attacks...- Ecological change, group territoriality, and population dynamics in Serengeti lionsCraig Packer
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 307:390-3. 2005..The results of a simulation model show that the observed pattern of "saltatory equilibria" results from the lions' grouping behavior... - Modeling the effects of trophy selection and environmental disturbance on a simulated population of African lionsKaryl L Whitman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Conserv Biol 21:591-601. 2007..These results are consistent with empirical observations of lion resilience to environmental stochasticity... 
Distinguishing epidemic waves from disease spillover in a wildlife populationMeggan E Craft
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 276:1777-85. 2009....- Top-down population regulation of a top predator: lions in the Ngorongoro CraterBernard M Kissui
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Proc Biol Sci 271:1867-74. 2004..The Crater lions may therefore provide important insights into the future of many endangered populations... - Sustainable trophy hunting of African lionsKaryl Whitman
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
Nature 428:175-8. 2004.... 
Serengeti real estate: density vs. fitness-based indicators of lion habitat qualityAnna Mosser
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Ecol Lett 12:1050-60. 2009..Our results indicate that density may be a misleading indicator of real estate value, particularly for populations that do not conform to an ideal free distribution...- Fear of darkness, the full moon and the nocturnal ecology of African lionsCraig Packer
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e22285. 2011..Consequently, the full moon is a reliable indicator of impending danger, perhaps helping to explain why the full moon has been the subject of so many myths and misconceptions... - Sexual selection, temperature, and the lion's manePeyton M West
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, 1987 Upper Buford Circle, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Science 297:1339-43. 2002..Maned males are hotter than females, and males have lighter and/or shorter manes in hotter seasons, years, and habitats. This phenotypic plasticity suggests that the mane will respond to forecasted increases in ambient temperature... - Sport hunting, predator control and conservation of large carnivoresCraig Packer
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
PLoS ONE 4:e5941. 2009..Effective conservation of these animals will require new harvest strategies and improved monitoring to counter demands for predator control by livestock producers and local communities... - Predatory senescence in ageing wolvesDaniel R MacNulty
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behaviour, University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN 55108, USA
Ecol Lett 12:1347-56. 2009..These findings suggest that predatory senescence is an important, though overlooked, factor affecting predator-prey dynamics... - Group formation stabilizes predator-prey dynamicsJohn M Fryxell
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
Nature 449:1041-3. 2007..Our results suggest that social groups rather than individuals are the basic building blocks around which predator-prey interactions should be modelled and that group formation may provide the underlying stability of many ecosystems... - Do acoustic features of lion, Panthera leo, roars reflect sex and male condition?Dana Pfefferle
Research Group Cognitive Ethology, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Gottingen, Germany
J Acoust Soc Am 121:3947-53. 2007..Instead, lion roars may have mainly been selected to effectively advertise territorial boundaries... - The conservation relevance of epidemiological research into carnivore viral diseases in the serengetiSarah Cleaveland
Wildlife and Emerging Diseases Section, Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9RG, United Kingdom
Conserv Biol 21:612-22. 2007..Long-term, integrative, cross-species research is essential for formulation of effective policy for disease control and optimization of ecosystem health... - What limits the Serengeti zebra population?Sophie Grange
Centre d Etudes Biologiques de Chize, CNRS UPR 1934, 79360 Beauvoir sur Niort, France
Oecologia 140:523-32. 2004..However, lion and hyena feed principally on adult zebras, and further work is required to discover the process involved in the high mortality of foals... - Climate extremes promote fatal co-infections during canine distemper epidemics in African lionsLinda Munson
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America
PLoS ONE 3:e2545. 2008..Such mass mortality events may become increasingly common if climate extremes disrupt historic stable relationships between co-existing pathogens and their susceptible hosts... - Patterns of feline immunodeficiency virus multiple infection and genome divergence in a free-ranging population of African lionsJennifer L Troyer
Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute-Frederick. IRSP Program, SAIC-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702, USA
J Virol 78:3777-91. 2004..This comprehensive study of FIV-Ple in a free-ranging population of lions reveals a dynamic transmission of virus in a social species that has historically adapted to render the virus benign... - The aging baboon: comparative demography in a non-human primateAnne M Bronikowski
Department of Zoology and Genetics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:9591-5. 2002..In contrast, primate taxa are differentiated by rates of demographic aging, even if they cannot be characterized by species-specific lifespan...