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

Projekt: Forschung

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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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  1. Daniel J. Lang

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  10. Formative assessment in every-day teaching of mathematical modelling
  11. Substance Flows Associated with Medical Care - Significance of Different Sources
  12. Reconstructing the “biopiracy” debate from a justice perspective
  13. Lautheitskonstanz oder Range-Effekt?
  14. Impact of Auditor and Audit Firm Rotation on Accounting and Audit Quality
  15. The Island of the Day After.
  16. Virtualität und Interaktivität
  17. The Effect of Solid Solute and Precipitate Phase on Young's Modulus of Binary Mg–RE Alloys
  18. Modeling of a thermomechanical process chain for sheet steels
  19. Chronometric and relative dating of the Middle Pleistocene sequence of Schöningen
  20. Water and soil towards sustainable land use
  21. iTaukei ways of knowing and managing mangroves for ecosystem-based adaptation
  22. Synthesis of Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids with the Weakly Coordinating [Al(ORF)(4)](-) Anion (R-F = C(H)(CF3)(2)) and the Determination of Their Principal Physical Properties
  23. Labour process theory