Fig. 1: Factors contributing towards ecological fragility scores.
From: Socio-political and ecological fragility of threatened, free-ranging African lion populations
Factors which rank positively on the y axis increase ecological fragility for those populations, while those which rank negatively reduce ecological fragility. Total z-score is the sum of both positive and negative values. A Selous-Niassa, Kavango-Zambezi were the least ecologically fragile geographic populations while Lake Manyara and Maze the most. B Botswana and South Sudan were the least ecologically countries and Cameroon and Malawi the most fragile.
