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MOESM9 of BMC Ecology Image Competition 2016: the winning images

Domaine:

environment and energygeospatial

Type de record:

dataset
Créateur:
SimPalSettele, JosefJac
Éditeur:
fig
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Additional file 9. â This photo of a herd of waterbuck in the morning mist was taken by a motion-detecting trail camera in the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique. A network of fifty trail cameras were set up by Paola Bouley, a researcher who is studying how the lion population is rebounding in Gorongosa after decades of war devastated wildlife populations. Hundreds of thousands of photos that she and her team have collected are available for citizen scientists to help her identify on the website WildCam Gorongosa. Waterbuck are a common sight in Gorongosa as their population has exploded to over 34,000 individuals up from only a few hundred after the war. Scientists are studying the waterbuck population to learn why they are experiencing such rapid growth.â Attribution: Chuck Schultz (Science Education Department, Howard Hughes Medical Institute).