- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
One Conservation in a Human-Dominated World -
Two Shaping the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Three Scales of Change in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Four Fire in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Five Spatial and Temporal Drivers of Plant Structure and Diversity in Serengeti Savannas -
Six Why Are Wildebeest the Most Abundant Herbivore in the Serengeti Ecosystem? -
Seven Climate-Induced Effects on the Serengeti Mammalian Food Web -
Eight From Bacteria to Elephants -
Nine Biodiversity and the Dynamics of Riverine Forests in Serengeti -
Ten Invertebrates of the Serengeti -
Eleven The Butterflies of Serengeti -
Twelve Small Mammal Diversity and Population Dynamics in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Thirteen Bird Diversity of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Fourteen The Effect of Natural Disturbances on the Avian Community of the Serengeti Woodlands -
Fifteen Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Sixteen The Plight of the People -
Seventeen Transitions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -
Eighteen Agricultural Expansion and Human Population Trends in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem from 1984 to 2003 -
Nineteen Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti -
Twenty Socioecological Dynamics and Feedbacks in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-One Living in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Two Bushmeat Hunting in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Three Human Health in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Four Multiple Functions and Institutions -
Twenty-Five Sustainability of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem for Wildlife and People -
Twenty-Six The Role of Research in Conservation and the Future of the Serengeti -
Twenty-Seven The Future of Conservation - Contributors
- Index
Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
- Chapter:
- (p.419) Fifteen Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem
- Source:
- Serengeti IV
- Author(s):
Meggan E. Craft
Katie Hampson
Joseph O. Ogutu
Sarah M. Durant
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem harbors a rich community of carnivores, and we are making gains to understand their ecology and distribution. In this system seasonality is important in driving many of the large carnivores’ movements and abundance patterns, while the distribution of all carnivores is also influenced by the availability of their preferred habitats in the ecosystem. However, even in an ecosystem the size of the Serengeti, carnivores are still influenced by the impacts of humans. Human activities, particularly from higher density agropastoralist populations, severely impact the structure and composition of carnivore assemblages, with far-reaching consequences. Agropastoralist areas likely act as sinks for wide-ranging larger bodied carnivore species and potentially as sources for opportunistic omnivorous species, whereas carnivore guilds are more complete and diverse in pastoralist areas—further confirming their conservation value. Long-term trends in abundance can be detected using the methods we present here, and future cross-disciplinary research needs to be implemented to determine the drivers of these trends (for example, in our case, declines in golden jackal abundance).
Keywords: agropastoral, carnivore management, ecosystem, carnivore species
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- Title Pages
- Preface and Acknowledgments
-
One Conservation in a Human-Dominated World -
Two Shaping the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Three Scales of Change in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Four Fire in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Five Spatial and Temporal Drivers of Plant Structure and Diversity in Serengeti Savannas -
Six Why Are Wildebeest the Most Abundant Herbivore in the Serengeti Ecosystem? -
Seven Climate-Induced Effects on the Serengeti Mammalian Food Web -
Eight From Bacteria to Elephants -
Nine Biodiversity and the Dynamics of Riverine Forests in Serengeti -
Ten Invertebrates of the Serengeti -
Eleven The Butterflies of Serengeti -
Twelve Small Mammal Diversity and Population Dynamics in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Thirteen Bird Diversity of the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Fourteen The Effect of Natural Disturbances on the Avian Community of the Serengeti Woodlands -
Fifteen Carnivore Communities in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Sixteen The Plight of the People -
Seventeen Transitions in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area -
Eighteen Agricultural Expansion and Human Population Trends in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem from 1984 to 2003 -
Nineteen Infectious Diseases in the Serengeti -
Twenty Socioecological Dynamics and Feedbacks in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-One Living in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Two Bushmeat Hunting in the Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Three Human Health in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem -
Twenty-Four Multiple Functions and Institutions -
Twenty-Five Sustainability of the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem for Wildlife and People -
Twenty-Six The Role of Research in Conservation and the Future of the Serengeti -
Twenty-Seven The Future of Conservation - Contributors
- Index
