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Diet and nutrient balance of wild Asian Elephants Elephas maximus in Nepal
Journal of Threatened TaxaWe estimated the nutritional content of major wild (n = 22) and agricultural crop plants (n = 3) consumed by Asian Elephants Elephas maximus in Nepal during the wet and dry seasons, respectively.
Raj Kumar Koirala, Sean C.P. Coogan
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Clashing conservation values: The social complexities of shark depredation
, 2022 Human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) are increasingly prominent worldwide, which can complicate conservation ef-forts for wildlife. Shark depredation, when a shark preys on a fishers' catch, is a growing HWC in global fisheries and is particularly contentious ...
Chin, Andrew +5 more
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Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2017 To be effective, livestock protection dogs (LPDs) must be carefully integrated with the livestock they will be protecting. Others have developed guidelines to assist producers in this training and assimilation process. In many areas fencing is necessary;
Thomas M. Gehring +2 more
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Climate change and the increasing impact of polar bears on bird populations
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 The Arctic is becoming warmer at a high rate, and contractions in the extent of sea ice are currently changing the habitats of marine top-predators dependent on ice. Polar bears (Ursus maritimus) depend on sea ice for hunting seals.
Jouke eProp +17 more
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Conflicts and Collisions With an Endangered Carnivore: Landscape Drivers and Spatial Risk Pattern
Ecology and EvolutionHuman–wildlife conflicts and anthropogenic mortality are expected to increase with the continuous encroachment on natural habitats within and around protected areas, yet the processes governing these risks remain poorly understood.
Marta Prat‐Guitart +3 more
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Understanding and quantifying shark depredation in a recreational fishery in the Ningaloo region of Western Australia [PDF]
, 2018 Shark depredation, where a shark consumes an animal caught by fishing gear before it can be retrieved to the fishing vessel, occurs in commercial and recreational fisheries worldwide, leading to higher mortality for target species, injury to sharks and ...
Mitchell, Jonathan D.
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Perceived efficacy of livestock‐guarding dogs in South Africa: Implications for cheetah conservation
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2013 Large wild carnivore predation on domestic livestock and the associated financial losses may increase efforts toward lethal control of carnivore populations.
Nicola A. Rust +2 more
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Ecology and EvolutionBecause it can lead to retaliatory killing, livestock depredation by large carnivores is among the foremost threats to carnivore conservation, and it severely impacts human well‐being worldwide.
Kirby L. Mills +7 more
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Depredation risk depends upon the period of non-use of an abandoned supplementary feeding site.
, 2015 Depredation risk in the vicinity of active or abandoned supplementary feeding sites – results of the best GLMM. Predicted depredation risk at control sites is marked with a dotted line (AGE = 0 in the model), grey lines denote ± 1 SE.
Karoline Zilmer (779916) +2 more
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A spatial risk map of gray wolf livestock depredations across the Great Lakes Region
Global Ecology and ConservationLivestock depredations by gray wolves are a source of human-wildlife conflict across their recolonizing range in the midwestern United States of America (USA) which may hinder recovery efforts.
Jacob E. Hill +12 more
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