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From: Orange River Francolins (Scleroptila levaillantoides) persist in fragmented Highveld farming landscapes, South Africa

Fig. 1

Google map showing a typical configuration of grass camps, arable fields (mainly maize) and roads in the study area that were traversed to determine how the Orange River Francolin (S. levaillantoides) interacted with fragmented land “parcels”. The white lines indicate the positions (and widths) of the open strips/fire break along maize field, fire breaks along the edges of grass camps and the road seams which occurred along the transect. The open strips of arable land (10 m wide) often have intermittent weed patches during winter. These strips are also often left open through ploughing and burning to create firebreaks. The transect-road, seams, fire breaks and open strips constitute the study area where francolins were counted (Van Niekerk 2016)

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