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Table 3 Parameters of travel mobility previously reported in the literature. NR designates a characteristic or parameter that was not reported by the reference
From: Livestock mobility in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review
Form1 | System2 | # herd3 | # routes/axes4 | Max. radius (km)5 | Displace (km)6 | Annual dist. (km) 7 | Country8 | Ref9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Map | LT/FL | NR | > 100 | 10–100 | NR | NR | Senegal | (Bonnet-Dupeyron 1951) |
Map | LT | NR | 10 | 150–300 | NR | NR | Niger | (Beauvilain 1977) |
Map | LT | NR | 6 | 40–120 | NR | NR | Burkina Faso | (Benoit 1978) |
Track | LT | 1 | 1 | NR | 12–18 | NR | Mali | (Diallo 1978) |
Track | LT | 1 | 1 | 160 | NR | NR | Mali | (Traoré 1978) |
Map | LT/FL | NR | > 100 | 5–200 | NR | NR | Senegal | (Gomez 1979) |
Track | ND | 3 | 3 | 27–40 | 7–17 | 80–140 | Ivory Coast | (Bassett 1986) |
Map | LT | NR | 8 | 100–200 | NR | NR | Ivory Coast | (Bassett 1994) |
Interview | LT | 9 | 9 | 63–750 | NR | 183–1880 | Niger | (Ziviler Friedensdienst et al. 2008) |
Interview | FL | NR | NR | 40–100 | NR | NR | Cameroon | (Dongmo et al. 2012) |
GPS | ND | 10 | 10 | 0–12.5 | NR | NR | Kenya | (Raizman et al. 2013) |
Track | LT/FL | 3 | 3 | 20–260 | 15–19 | NR | Sudan | (Young et al. 2013) |
GPS | VT | 13 | 13 | NR | 10–45 | NR | Madagascar | (Feldt and Schlecht 2016) |
Interview | LT/FL |  | 54 | 8–106 | NR | NR | Senegal | (Turner et al. 2016a) |
Interview | ND | 91 | 91 | 0–50 | NR | NR | Ethiopia | (Wario et al. 2016) |
GPS | ND | 20 |  | 5.8–12.5 | NR | NR | Ethiopia | (Liao et al. 2017) |
Interview/map | LT | 6 | 8 | 66–290 | NR | 132–580 | Sudan | (Sulieman and Ahmed 2017) |
GPS | LT | 6 | 6 | 53.3–172.7 | 3.2–4.1 (median) | 633–763 | Cameroon | (Motta et al. 2018) |