| 来源类型 | Journal Article |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| Commensal in conflict: Livestock depredation patterns by free-ranging domestic dogs in the Upper Spiti Landscape, Himachal Pradesh, India, | |
| Home, C., Pal, R., Sharma, R.K., Suryawanshi, K.R., Bhatnagar, Y.V., and Vanak, A.T. | |
| 发表日期 | 2017 |
| 出处 | Ambio:1-12. doi:10.1007/s13280-016-0858-6 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | In human-populated landscapes worldwide, domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are the most abundant terrestrial carnivore. Although dogs have been used for the protection of livestock from wild carnivores, they have also been implicated as predators of livestock. We used a combination of methods (field surveys, interview surveys, and data from secondary sources) to examine the patterns and factors driving livestock depredation by free-ranging dogs, as well as economic losses to local communities in a Trans-Himalayan agro-pastoralist landscape in India. Our results show that livestock abundance was a better predictor of depredation in the villages than local dog abundance. Dogs mainly killed small-bodied livestock and sheep were the most selected prey. Dogs were responsible for the majority of livestock losses, with losses being comparable to that by snow leopards. This high level of conflict may disrupt community benefits from conservation programs and potentially undermine the conservation efforts in the region through a range of cascading effects. |
| 主题 | Landscape, Livelihoods and Conservation |
| URL | https://www.atree.org/node/11 |
| 来源智库 | Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (India) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/86059 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Home, C., Pal, R., Sharma, R.K., Suryawanshi, K.R., Bhatnagar, Y.V., and Vanak, A.T.. Commensal in conflict: Livestock depredation patterns by free-ranging domestic dogs in the Upper Spiti Landscape, Himachal Pradesh, India,. 2017. |
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