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Impacts of human-wildlife conflict in developing countries
Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management, 2018 This paper is aimed to investigate the driving forces for human-wildlife conflict in developing countries in order to develop conservation strategies.
D.O. Gemeda, S.K. Meles
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Crop raiding by wildlife on subsistence homesteads around the Hluhluwe game reserve South Africa
, 2019 A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy 2019The literature on human-wildlife conflict shows that subsistence farming is a
Raphela, Tlou Daisy
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Crop raiding patterns of solitary and social groups of red-tailed monkeys on cocoa pods in Uganda [PDF]
, 2012 Crop damage by wildlife is a very prevalent form of human-wildlife conflict adjacent to protected areas, and great economic losses from crop raiding impede efforts to protect wildlife.
Teichroeb, JA +3 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Decision‐making in integrated pest management (IPM) corresponds to an optimisation problem where the plant–pest dynamics and the control actions are constraints and where the objective function accounts for the costs of the treatments and the total income at the harvest time.
Luca Rossini +2 more
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Pachyderm, 2018 Conflict between humans and elephants is a notoriously complex problem requiring a detailed understanding of the underlying patterns and processes in order to develop effective solutions.
Ryan Wilkie, Iain Douglas-Hamilton
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Increasing predation intensity of predatory mite significantly reduced spider mite fitness in terms of shorter mother longevity, lower mother fecundity, longer offspring development, lower offspring survival, and lower population growth. Abstract BACKGROUND Predators suppress pest populations not only through direct consumption but also via non ...
Resona Simkhada +3 more
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Elephant crop damage in the Red Volta Valley, north-eastern Ghana
Pachyderm, 2005 Crop raiding behaviour of elephants that seasonally migrate into the Red Volta Valley was monitored as part of a project assessing conflict mitigation. Betrween 1999-2003 farmers in the project area were organized into associations.
Patrick Adjewodah +3 more
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Pest Management Science, EarlyView.Endophytic colonization of melon plants by B. bassiana modifies the crop volatile profiles in a genotype‐dependent manner. A predator choice is biased toward endophytically colonized plants infested with aphids revealing a guardian within effect of the fungus of great potential in integrated pest management.
María Cuenca‐Medina +5 more
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Pachyderm, 2002 This study compared an experimental community based strategy for protecting crops with current deterrent methods involved 7 villages in a high elephant population area in Guruve District in northern Zimbabwe.
Ferrel Osborn, Guy Parker
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Using Geographical Information System to predict primate crop raiding in Peninsular Malaysia. [PDF]
, 2009 Crop raiding is one of the main primate-human conflicts in Malaysia. In this study, a Geographic Information System (GIS) to predict primate crop raiding susceptibility was developed using land use types and estimated macaque populations as the ...
Abd. Manan, Mohd Shahrudin +2 more
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