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Not just ‘super‐predators': human behaviour shapes wildlife behavioural responses across avoidance, tolerance and attraction

Oikos, EarlyView.
Humans are thought to have a disproportionately negative impact on wildlife and are viewed by some as the ultimate ‘super predator'. This view implies that wild animals perceive humans primarily as predators. However, a growing body of evidence shows that wildlife can have remarkable tolerance for, or even attraction to, humans.
Friederike Zenth, Daniel T. Blumstein, Luca Corlatti, Mengxi Kou, Sebastian Schwegmann, Farina Sooth, Ilse Storch, Manisha Bhardwaj   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Attitudes, norms, and beliefs of pastoralists toward cheetahs in the Horn of Africa

Frontiers in Conservation Science
Free-ranging African cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) inhabit only 13% of their former range. A subspecies of particular conservation concern is the Northeastern African cheetah (A. j. soemmeringii), which has a tentative estimate of 500 mature individuals in
Kelly W. Jones, Kelly W. Jones, Paul Evangelista, Sarah M. Durant, Sarah M. Durant, Nicholas E. Young, Redae T. Tesfai, Abdullahi H. Ali, Patricia Tricorache, Nicholas Mitchell, Nicholas Mitchell, Tomas Maule, Mowlid Hassan Abdilahi, Aden Hussein Edin, Sangale Edwin, Mohamed Hussein, Ahmed Mohamud Mohamed, Abdifatah Hassan Musse   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overexploitation can counteract top‐down control and the paradox of enrichment in simple food chains

Oikos, EarlyView.
Because of its high abundance or its high feeding intensity, a consumer can overexploit its resource by consuming it on a shorter timescale than resource regeneration. While this short‐term overexploitation is widespread in nature, its general implications for biotic control patterns and ecosystem stability are not clear.
Josquin Guerber, Nicolas Loeuille, Isabelle Gounand   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frugivory‐mediated trophic cascades: how apex predators can shape the recruitment of a fleshy‐fruited tree

Oikos, EarlyView.
The recovery of large carnivores offers unique opportunities to study their cascading impacts on plant population dynamics. Medium‐sized carnivores, both prey and seed dispersers, are suppressed by apex predators, indirectly increasing seed‐eating rodent's populations and potentially altering plant establishment.
Tamara Burgos, Jose María Fedriani, Gema Escribano‐Ávila, Emilio Virgós   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seasonal variations in planktonic food web structure affect stability by shifting the distribution of energy fluxes

Oikos, EarlyView.
Seasonality in temperate ecosystems shapes species phenology, influencing interactions and food web structure. Variations in species richness and biomass affect trophic interaction strength, a crucial factor for community stability, which can be assessed through energy fluxes – an essential indicator of ecosystem function.
Simon Bazin, Isabelle Domaizon, Cécilia Barouillet, Victor Frossard, Arnaud Sentis   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marine Protected Areas and Pelagic Fishing: The Case of the Chagos Archipelago [PDF]

, 2011
This editorial elaborates on the ramifications of the new Chagos Marine Reserve in the context of pelagic ...
Charles Sheppard
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Bioclimatic, demographic and anthropogenic correlates of grizzly bear activity patterns in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Oikos, EarlyView.
Plasticity of diel activity rhythms may be a key element for adaptations of wildlife populations to changing environmental conditions. In the last decades, grizzly bears Ursus arctos in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) have experienced notable environmental fluctuations, including changes in availability of food sources and severe droughts ...
Aurora Donatelli, Mark A. Haroldson, Justin G. Clapp, Paolo Ciucci, Frank T. van Manen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carnívoros invasores en Patagonia: Definiendo prioridades para su manejo usando el visón americano (Neovison vison) como caso de estudio [PDF]

, 2014
El visón Americano es una especie introducida con una amplia distribución en Patagonia y por su comportamiento de forrajeo es el carnívoro invasor con el mayor potencial para afectar a la biodiversidad en la región. La información disponible acerca de la
Fasola, Laura, Valenzuela, Alejandro Eduardo Jorge   +1 more
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Large, rugged and remote: The challenge of wolf–livestock coexistence on federal lands in the American West

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The expansion of grey wolves (Canis lupus) across the western United States, including on public lands used for extensive livestock grazing, requires tools and techniques for reducing wolf–livestock conflict and supporting coexistence. We examined approaches used on forested lands managed by the U.S.
Robert M. Anderson, Susan Charnley, Jeff Vance Martin, Kathleen Epstein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coping with risk and distortion in performance-based payment for environmental services schemes [PDF]

Around the world, ecosystems are in decline and as human population increases new policy mechanisms to counteract this trend are increasingly being sought-after.
Zabel, Astrid
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