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Human footprint restricts ranges

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Human development is restricting animal movement within anthropogenic landscapes, with consequences for population- and ecosystem-level processes.

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Fig. 1: Caracals are the largest remaining predator in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, an area in which urbanization has driven a substantial loss of large mammals.

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Photopoulou, T. Human footprint restricts ranges. Nat Ecol Evol 2, 773–774 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0538-y

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