Alleviating human-wildlife conflicts: Identifying the causes and mapping the risk of illegal poisoning of wild fauna

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 376-385

  Mateo Tomás, Patricia ^a   Olea, Pedro P ^b   Sánchez Barbudo, Inés S ^a   Mateo, Rafael ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b IE UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Deliberate poisoning; Livestock; MaxEnt; Predators; Protected areas; Species distribution models

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; LIVESTOCK FARMING; MAMMAL; MAPPING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NATURAL RESOURCE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POISONING; PROTECTED AREA; RAPTOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WILD POPULATION;

SPAIN;

AVES; BOS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; MAMMALIA; RAPTORES; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84859159246     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2012.02119.x     Document Type: Article

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