Monitoring rarity: the critically endangered Saharan cheetah as a flagship species for a threatened ecosystem.

Deserts are particularly vulnerable to human impacts and have already suffered a substantial loss of biodiversity. In harsh and variable desert environments, large herbivores typically occur at low densities, and their large carnivore predators occur at even lower densities. The continued survival o...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Farid Belbachir, Nathalie Pettorelli, Tim Wacher, Amel Belbachir-Bazi, Sarah M Durant
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0115136&type=printable