Consequences of climate-induced vegetation changes exceed those of human disturbance for wild impala in the Serengeti ecosystem | Zendy

Louis Hunninck | Zendy; Roel May | Zendy; Craig R. Jackson | Zendy; Rupert Palme | Zendy; Eivin Røskaft | Zendy; Michael J. Sheriff | Zendy

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Consequences of climate-induced vegetation changes exceed those of human disturbance for wild impala in the Serengeti ecosystem

Author(s) -

Louis Hunninck,

Roel May,

Craig R. Jackson,

Rupert Palme,

Eivin Røskaft,

Michael J. Sheriff

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

conservation physiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.942

H-Index - 37

ISSN - 2051-1434

DOI - 10.1093/conphys/coz117

Subject(s) - disturbance (geology) , ecosystem , biodiversity , normalized difference vegetation index , vegetation (pathology) , ecology , biology , forage , population , climate change , medicine , paleontology , demography , pathology , sociology

Climate change and human disturbances are major threats to biodiversity. We studied the interactive effects of reduced forage availability together with human disturbance on glucocorticoid (GC) levels in wild impala. Our results show that impala had elevated GC levels when forage quality was low, even with significant protection and reduced human disturbance.

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