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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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Relative Importance of Habitat Characteristics and Interspecific Relations in Determining Terrestrial Carnivore Occurrence

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Carnivores act as top-down regulators in terrestrial ecosystems, and their occurrence and relative abundance is a result of complex interactions between food and habitat availability, human pressure (e.g., trapping, hunting, roadkill), and intraguild ...
Mackenzie Rich, Cassandra Thompson, Suzanne Prange, Viorel D. Popescu, Viorel D. Popescu, Viorel D. Popescu   +5 more
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Painted Ferocity: The Social Behaviors of African Wild Dogs, Threats to Survival, and Resulting Conservation Initiatives [PDF]

, 2018
African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) are an endangered species of canid from Sub-Saharan Africa. They are very social communal hunters, and are capable of chasing down prey for long stretches of time. Wild dogs benefit a savannah ecosystem by regulating the
Valdes, Alexis
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Might macronutrient requirements influence grizzly bear–human conflict? Insights from nutritional geometry

Ecosphere, 2016
Knowledge of carnivore nutritional requirements offers a potentially powerful aid for conservation and management strategies, yet has received little attention.
Sean C. P. Coogan, David Raubenheimer
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Casual analysis and short‐sighted inferences: A response to Majgaonkar et al. 2019

Conservation Science and Practice, 2019
The increased interface of humans and large carnivores in human‐modified landscapes requires mechanisms to reduce conflict and allow co‐existence. The recent article by Majgaonkar et al.
Shivam Shrotriya, Nilanjan Chatterjee, Bilal Habib   +2 more
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Una revisión preliminar del estatus de conocimiento de los félidos argentinos [PDF]

, 2004
En Argentina ocurren 10 especies de félidos silvestres (el 28% del total mundial). A pesar de que el Grupo de Especialistas en Félidos de la UICN ha clasificado como bueno el estado de conservación de los felinos argentinos, esta categorización utilizó ...
Lucherini, Mauro, Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris, Soler, Lucía   +2 more
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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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Different coexistence patterns between apex carnivores and mesocarnivores based on temporal, spatial, and dietary niche partitioning analysis in Qilian Mountain National Park, China

eLife
Carnivores play key roles in maintaining ecosystem structure and function as well as ecological processes. Understanding how sympatric species coexist in natural ecosystems is a central research topic in community ecology and biodiversity conservation ...
Wei Cong, Jia Li, Charlotte Hacker, Ye Li, Yu Zhang, Lixiao Jin, Yi Zhang, Diqiang Li, Yadong Xue, Yuguang Zhang   +9 more
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Using a recently developed camera trapping method to improve monitoring efforts for African small carnivore species

Ecological Solutions and Evidence
Small mammalian carnivores (here
Robert S. Davis, Kamil Saloojee, Jan A. Venter   +2 more
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Risk-driven behaviour in the African leopard:how is leopard behaviour mediated by lion presence? [PDF]

, 2016
Agricultural expansion is restricting many carnivore species to smaller tracts of land, potentially forcing increased levels of overlap between competitors by constraining spatial partitioning.
RAFIQ, KASIM
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