Understanding human-carnivore relationships: from social conflicts to ecosystem services

Projekt: Forschung

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Beschreibung

The continued loss of biodiversity has led to the adoption of multiple international agreements that aim to counteract the decline of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Among the diversity of species, terrestrial mammalian carnivores is one of the most controversial and challenging group to conserve because their massive area requirements, predatory behaviour on wild prey and livestock, and the social perception of these animals as harmful and dangerous. As a consequence, they are facing multiple threats besides habitat loss, such as persecution, hunting and over-utilization, which all together are promoting massive declines in their populations and geographic range. Paradoxically, these carnivores are also some of the world’s most valued species for conservation. In fact, because their iconic and charismatic nature, terrestrial carnivores can contribute to the development of nature-based tourism. Carnivores play an essential role in providing ecosystem services, including provisioning services, such as food provision, regulating services, and cultural ecosystem services.

Despite the increasing attention to ecosystem services in scientific and science-policy interface forums, there has been little attempt to integrate this knowledge into the field of human-carnivore relationships, which has been mostly focused on conflicts. Consequently, a better understanding of the ecosystem services provided by terrestrial carnivores can highly support their conservation by uncovering the benefits they provide to society.
StatusAbgeschlossen
Zeitraum01.11.1631.10.17

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Forschende

  1. Birgit Többen

Publikationen

  1. Comparison of different FEM code approaches in the simulation of the die deflection during aluminium extrusion
  2. Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct
  3. Experimental Investigation of Efficiency and Deposit Process Temperature During Multi-Layer Friction Surfacing
  4. Amplifying actions for food system transformation: insights from the Stockholm region
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  6. A hybrid hydraulic piezo actuator modeling and hysteresis effect identification for control in camless internal combustion engines
  7. Careless product use in access-based services
  8. Random year intercepts in mixed models help to assess uncertainties in insect population trends
  9. Vocational exploration: Multivariate predictors and effect on confidence development in adolescence
  10. Effect of cascading of higher-lying states on a delayed 1 s-2 p transition after beam-foil excitation of 56 MeV hydrogen-like oxygen and fluorine
  11. The Supply of Project Information to External Stakeholders
  12. Introduction: Art Alone Can Do Nothing
  13. Communication spaces - memory spaces. Articles on transcultural encounter in Africa
  14. A group-level theory of helping and altruism within and across group boundaries
  15. Jointly experimenting for transformation?
  16. Beating uncontrolled eating
  17. Editors’ Introduction
  18. Construct Clean-Up in Proactivity Research
  19. Audio Video Sampler
  20. Maintaining the Reputation of Reputation
  21. Migration in der Adoleszenz
  22. Attention and the Speed of Information Processing
  23. Refractory fields of reference
  24. Teaching learning strategies with a pedagogical agent
  25. A review of FEM code accuracy for reliable extrusion process analysis
  26. Responsivity
  27. Media reporting and business cycles
  28. Extrusion of profiles with variable wall thickness
  29. An EEG frequency tagging study on biological motion perception in children with DCD
  30. Do limiting factors at Alaskan treelines shift with climatic regimes?
  31. Decolonizing Otherness through a Transcultural Lens: Conclusion
  32. Comparing eye movements during mathematical word problem solving in Chinese and German

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