The role of predation and food limitation on claims for compensation, reindeer demography and population dynamics.

ABSTRACT: A major challenge in biodiversity conservation is to facilitate viable populations of large apex predators in ecosystems where they were recently driven to ecological extinction due to resource conflict with humans.Monetary compensation for losses of livestock due to predation is currently a key instrument to encourage human-carnivore coexistence. However, a lack of quantitative estimates of livestock losses due to predation leads to disagreement over the practice of compensation payments. This disagreement sustains the human-carnivore conflict.The level of depredation on year-round, free-ranging, semi-domestic reindeer by large carnivores in Fennoscandia has been widely debated over several decades. In Norway, the reindeer herders claim that lynx and wolverine cause losses of tens of thou

SUBMITTER: Tveraa T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4279950 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature