Ecological Change, Group Territoriality, and Population Dynamics in Serengeti Lions

@article{Packer2005EcologicalCG,
  title={Ecological Change, Group Territoriality, and Population Dynamics in Serengeti Lions},
  author={Craig Packer and Ray Hilborn and Anna Mosser and Bernard M Kissui and Markus Borner and Grant Hopcraft and John F. WilmshurstJ.F. Wilmshurst and Simon A. R. Mduma and Anthony R. E. Sinclair},
  journal={Science},
  year={2005},
  volume={307},
  pages={390 - 393}
}
Territorial behavior is expected to buffer populations against short-term environmental perturbations, but we have found that group living in African lions causes a complex response to long-term ecological change. Despite numerous gradual changes in prey availability and vegetative cover, regional populations of Serengeti lions remained stable for 10- to 20-year periods and only shifted to new equilibria in sudden leaps. Although gradually improving environmental conditions provided sufficient… 
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