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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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Tourism-supported working lands sustain a growing jaguar population in the Colombian Llanos
Scientific Reports, 2023 Understanding large carnivore demography on human-dominated lands is a priority to inform conservation strategies, yet few studies examine long-term trends.
Matthew Hyde +9 more
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Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 We conducted a comparative study of jaguar and puma activity patterns within a mosaic of protected areas (AMR) and on a cattle ranch (CR) in Pantanal, Brazil, to better understand their activity patterns in these landscapes.
Diego Francis P. Viana +5 more
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Identificación de sitios de cruce de fauna en la ruta 415, en el "Paso del Jaguar", Costa Rica.
Infraestructura Vial, 2016 La Iniciativa del Corredor del Jaguar pretende mantener la conectividad de esta especie. En Costa Rica, esta iniciativa inició en el Subcorredor Biológico Barbilla-Destierro.
Daniela Araya-Gamboa +1 more
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Analyses of national mountain lion harvest indices yield ambiguous interpretations
Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Wildlife managers make difficult decisions about how best to ensure sustainable wildlife populations. This is especially contentious in the absence of accurate abundance data.
L. Mark Elbroch +3 more
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Genome-wide signatures of complex introgression and adaptive evolution in the big cats. [PDF]
, 2017 The great cats of the genus Panthera comprise a recent radiation whose evolutionary history is poorly understood. Their rapid diversification poses challenges to resolving their phylogeny while offering opportunities to investigate the historical ...
Antunes, Agostinho +32 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 The lion Panthera leo is Critically Endangered in West Africa and is known to occupy only four protected areas within the region. The largest population persists in the trans-boundary W-Arly-Pendjari (WAP) ecosystem, in the border region of Benin ...
Philipp Henschel +7 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Conservation of carnivores involves finding solutions to minimize habitat loss and human-wildlife conflict. Understanding the nature of land-use economics can allow us to mitigate both threats. In the Pantanal, the two main economic activities are cattle
Fernando R. Tortato +7 more
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Hyperostotic tympanic bone spicules in domestic and wild animal species [PDF]
, 2016 Hyperostotic tympanic bone spicules (HTBS), or "mucoperiosteal exostoses" (ME, syn.) are small, globular (>= 1 mm in diameter), mostly stalked and drumstick-like, bony structures, which arise from the inner wall of the tympanic bulla and project into the
Blutke, A +5 more
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Are pumas subordinate carnivores, and does it matter? [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Interspecific competition affects species fitness, community assemblages and structure, and the geographic distributions of species. Established dominance hierarchies among species mitigate the need for fighting and contribute to the realized ...
L. Mark Elbroch, Anna Kusler
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