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Preliminary assessment of illegal hunting by communities adjacent to the northern Gonarezhou National Park, Zimbabwe [PDF]

, 2011
Illegal hunting of wildlife is a major issue in today’s society, particularly in tropical ecosystems. In this study, a total of 114 local residents from eight villages located in four wards adjacent to the northern Gonarezhou National Park, south-eastern
Gandiwa, E.
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Cost of Coexisting with a Relict Large Carnivore Population: Impact of Apennine Brown Bears, 2005–2015

Animals, 2021
Human-carnivore conflicts are a major conservation issue. As bears are expanding their range in Europe’s human-modified landscapes, it is increasingly important to understand, prevent, and address human-bear conflicts and evaluate mitigation strategies ...
Andrea Galluzzi, Valerio Donfrancesco, Gianluca Mastrantonio, Cinzia Sulli, Paolo Ciucci   +4 more
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Living high and at risk: predicting Andean bear occurrence and conflicts with humans in southeastern Peru

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022
Human encroachment into wildlife habitat threatens the persistence of large carnivore populations because it shrinks their distribution and promotes conflicts related to agricultural and livestock damage.
Roxana Rojas-VeraPinto, Carlos Bautista, Nuria Selva   +2 more
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The first experience of livestock guarding dogs preventing large carnivore damages in Finland; pp. 216–224

Estonian Journal of Ecology, 2009
Livestock guarding dogs (LGDs) have been for millennia an effective means of protecting rangeland, i.e. cattle or sheep, from predators in Central and Southern Europe and Asia. In contrast, there is no LGD tradition or local breeds in the Nordic countries.
Teet Otstavel, Kristiina A. Vuori, David E. Sims, Anna Valros, Outi Vainio, Hannu Saloniemi   +5 more
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Parasite infections in a social carnivore: Evidence of their fitness consequences and factors modulating infection load [PDF]

, 2019
There are substantial individual differences in parasite composition and infection load in wildlife populations. Few studies have investigated the factors shaping this heterogeneity in large wild mammals or the impact of parasite infections on Darwinian ...
Bush A. O., Ferreira S. C. M., Foreyt W. J., Hofer H., Kruuk H., R Core Team, Roff D., Stearns S. C., Therneau T., Urquhart G. M., Zajac A. M.   +10 more
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Morphological characteristics of preparator air-scribe marks: Implications for taphonomic research.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Taphonomic analyses of bone-surface modifications can provide key insights into past biotic involvement with animal remains, as well as elucidate the context(s) of other biostratinomic (pre-burial) processes, diagenesis, excavation, preparation and ...
Logan A Wiest, Joseph V Ferraro, Katie M Binetti, Steven L Forman, Donald A Esker, Mzalendo Kibunjia, Jean-Philip Brugal, Bernd Zechmann   +7 more
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The effectiveness of livestock protection measures against wolves (Canis lupus) and implications for their co-existence with humans

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Wolves (Canis lupus) can kill domestic livestock resulting in intense conflicts with humans. Damage to livestock should be reduced to facilitate human-wolf coexistence and ensure positive outcomes of conservation efforts.
Antonia Bruns, Matthias Waltert, Igor Khorozyan   +2 more
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Emergent global patterns of ecosystem structure and function from a mechanistic general ecosystem model [PDF]

, 2014
Anthropogenic activities are causing widespread degradation of ecosystems worldwide, threatening the ecosystem services upon which all human life depends.
A Friedlander, A Hardisty, B Cho, B Collen, B-E Sæther, BJ McGill, C Mora, C Ward-Paige, CA Deutsch, CB Field, CD Thomas, CEL Ferreira, CH Sekercioglu, CM Duarte, CR McClain, D Griffiths, D Policansky, D Post, D Yates, Derek P. Tittensor, DG Jenkins, Drew W. Purves, DW Purves, E Jeppesen, E Macpherson, E Odum, E Siemann, EA Fulton, FS Chapin, G Krinner, GA Kaufman, GM Mace, H Cyr, H Stibor, HR Peinetti, J Cebrian, J Chase, J Gasol, J Merilä, JA Carton, JE Cohen, JH Brown, JL Frangi, JM Sunday, Jon Hutton, JP Rodríguez, JS Millar, Jörn P. W. Scharlemann, K Rose, KA Nagy, KA Schubert, KE Jones, KR Buck, L Tremblay-Boyer, LLM Fedigan, LW Oring, M Behrenfeld, M González-Suárez, Matthew J. Smith, MBJ Harfoot, ME Power, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Michel Loreau, MJ Coe, MJ Morgan, MJ Smith, MJ Vander Zanden, MK Litvak, MR Evans, MW McCoy, N Blakley, N Loeuille, NG Hairston, O Krüger, P Abrams, P Del Giorgio, PK Holland, R Alkemade, R Bustamante, R Gentile, R Meek, R Shine, R Shine, RE Ricklefs, RE Ricklefs, RJ Williams, RJ Williams, RW Sheldon, RW Wilson, S Díaz, S Fretwell, S Jain, S Jennings, S Jennings, S Meiri, S Sitch, SA Sandin, SD Pletcher, Stephen Emmott, T Newbold, T Sousa, Tim Newbold, TJ Case, TJ Webb, U Brose, V Christensen, Vassily Lyutsarev, W Sprules, X Irigoien, Y-J Shin   +109 more
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Conflicts of human with the Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus) in the Sanjiangyuan region, China

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Human-carnivore conflict (HCC) has become a major concern for both the management of protected areas and local community development worldwide. The occurrence and intervention of HCCs has been originated in duel context of the environment and social ...
Yunchuan Dai, Charlotte E. Hacker, Yuguang Zhang, Ye Li, Jia Li, Yadong Xue, Diqiang Li   +6 more
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Wildlife restoration needs more effort to mitigate conservation conflicts: the case of large carnivore damages in Europe

Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology, 2018
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Bautista, Carlos, Revilla, Eloy, Naves, Javier, Fernández, Néstor, Albrecht, Jörg, Olszańska, Agnieszka, Adamec, Michal, Berezowska-Cnota, Teresa, Ciucci, Paolo, Groff, Claudio, Härkönen, Sauli, Huber, Djuro, Jerina, Klemen, Jonozovic, Marko, Karamanlidis, Alexandros A., Palazón, Santiago, Rigg, Robin, Seijas, Juan, Swenson, Jon E., Talvi, Tõnu, Selva, Nuria   +20 more
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