Effectiveness of non-lethal predator deterrents to reduce livestock losses to leopard attacks within a multiple-use landscape of the Himalayan region
Lethal measures are widely adopted by local communities and governments to manage human-wildlife conflicts. Such measures lead to large scale decline of carnivore populations globally with trophic cascades on ecosystems and questionable impacts on human-wildlife conflicts. Mitigating human-carnivore...
Main Authors: | Dipanjan Naha, Pooja Chaudhary, Gaurav Sonker, Sambandam Sathyakumar |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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PeerJ Inc.
2020-07-01
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Series: | PeerJ |
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Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/9544.pdf |
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