Mitigating carnivore-livestock conflict in Europe: Lessons from Slovakia

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Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 272-280

  Rigg, Robin ^a   Find̂o, Slavomír ^b   Wechselberger, Maria ^a   Gorman, Martyn L ^c   Sillero Zubiri, Claudio ^d   MacDonald, David W ^d  

^a Slovak Wildlife Society   (Slovakia)

^b Carpathian Wildlife Society   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Canis lupus; damage prevention; grey wolf; livestock predation; livestock guarding dogs; Lynx lynx; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BEAR; CANID; CARNIVORE; COEXISTENCE; DAMAGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; LIVESTOCK; MITIGATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PASTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; SHEEP; VULNERABILITY;

SLOVAKIA;

BOS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; LYNX; LYNX LYNX; OVIS ARIES; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 79956077207     PISSN: 00306053     EISSN: 13653008     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0030605310000074     Document Type: Article

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