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dc.contributor.authorSuryawanshi, Kulbhushansingh R.
dc.contributor.authorRedpath, Stephen M.
dc.contributor.authorBhatnagar, Yash Veer
dc.contributor.authorRamakrishnan, Uma
dc.contributor.authorChaturvedi, Vaibhav
dc.contributor.authorSmout, Sophie C.
dc.contributor.authorMishra, Charudutt
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-26T14:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-06-26T14:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-06-07
dc.identifier.citationSuryawanshi , K R , Redpath , S M , Bhatnagar , Y V , Ramakrishnan , U , Chaturvedi , V , Smout , S C & Mishra , C 2017 , ' Impact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopards ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 4 , 170026 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170026en
dc.identifier.issn2054-5703
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 250335721
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 817d0b9d-bb11-4c1a-989e-0da38834ff67
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85020425086
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000404843200013
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11089
dc.descriptionThe fieldwork was supported by Fondation Segré-Whitley Fund for Nature, Conservation Leadership Programme and National Geographic Young Explorer fund. These grants supported K.R.S., Y.V.B. and C.M. Laboratory analysis was supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. This grant supported U.R., V.C., Y.V.B., K.R.S. and C.M. Data Dryad Repository. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8p689)en
dc.description.abstractAn increasing proportion of the world’s poor is rearing livestock today, and the global livestock population is growing. Livestock predation by large carnivores and their retaliatory killing is becoming an economic and conservation concern. A common recommendation for carnivore conservation and for reducing predation on livestock is to increase wild prey populations based on the assumption that the carnivores will consume this alternative food. Livestock predation, however, could either reduce or intensify with increases in wild prey depending on prey choice and trends in carnivore abundance. We show that the extent of livestock predation by the endangered snow leopard Panthera uncia intensifies with increases in the density of wild ungulate prey, and subsequently stabilizes. We found that snow leopard density, estimated at seven sites, was a positive linear function of the density of wild ungulates—the preferred prey—and showed no discernible relationship with livestock density. We also found that modelled livestock predation increased with livestock density. Our results suggest that snow leopard conservation would benefit from an increase in wild ungulates, but that would intensify the problem of livestock predation for pastoralists. The potential benefits of increased wild prey abundance in reducing livestock predation can be overwhelmed by a resultant increase in snow leopard populations. Snow leopard conservation efforts aimed at facilitating increases in wild prey must be accompanied by greater assistance for better livestock protection and offsetting the economic damage caused by carnivores.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofRoyal Society Open Scienceen
dc.rights© 2017 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.en
dc.subjectApparent competitionen
dc.subjectApparent facilitationen
dc.subjectConservation conflictsen
dc.subjectIndirect interactionsen
dc.subjectPredatoren
dc.subjectPrey interactionsen
dc.subjectSnow leoparden
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectGeneralen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleImpact of wild prey availability on livestock predation by snow leopardsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modellingen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170026
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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