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Wildlife Resilience in an Urban Landscape: Understanding Land–Use Impacts in Cape Town

2023-12-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Urbanisation is rapidly transforming and fragmenting natural habitat, disrupting ecosystems and negatively impacting biodiversity. The city of Cape Town (CoCT) is situated in a global biodiversity hotspot but sustained anthropogenic activities have resulted in the local extirpation of most medium and large mammals. A recent survey of mammals within urban protected areas of CoCT revealed...

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DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-3727408/v1

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