Relative influence of wild prey and livestock abundance on carnivore-caused livestock predation.

ABSTRACT: Conservation conflict over livestock depredation is one of the key drivers of large mammalian carnivore declines worldwide. Mitigating this conflict requires strategies informed by reliable knowledge of factors influencing livestock depredation. Wild prey and livestock abundance are critical factors influencing the extent of livestock depredation. We compared whether the extent of livestock predation by snow leopards Panthera uncia differed in relation to densities of wild prey, livestock, and snow leopards at two sites in Shey Phoksundo National Park, Nepal. We used camera trap-based spatially explicit capture-recapture models to estimate snow leopard density; double-observer surveys to estimate the density of their main prey species, the blue sheep Pseudois nayaur; and inte

SUBMITTER: Khanal G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7593152 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature