Building a resilient coexistence with wildlife in a more crowded world.
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SUBMITTER: Carter NH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9991453 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar
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Building a resilient coexistence with wildlife in a more crowded world.
Carter Neil H NH Linnell John D C JDC
PNAS nexus 20230201 3
There is an urgent need to sustainably coexist with wildlife. However, realizing this goal is hampered by scant understanding of the processes that facilitate and maintain coexistence. Here, we synthesize human-wildlife interactions into eight archetypal outcomes, from <i>eradication</i> to <i>sustained co-benefits</i>, which collectively serve as a heuristic for forms of coexistence across a wide range of species and systems worldwide. We utilize resilience theory to elucidate how and why human ...[more]
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