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Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Big cats kill more livestock when wild prey reaches a minimum threshold
Auteurs :	Igor Khorozyan, Auteur ; Arash Ghoddousi, Auteur ; Mahmood Soofi, Auteur ; Matthias Waltert, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Biological Conservation (192 DEC 2015)
Article en page(s) :	268-275
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	Livestock predation by big cats, i.e., lion (Panthera leo), tiger (Panthera tigris), leopard (Panthera pardus), jaguar (Panthera onca), snow leopard (Panthera uncia), puma (Puma concolor), and cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus), creates conflicts with humans which challenge biodiversity conservation and rural development. Deficiency of wild prey biomass is often described as a driver of such conflicts, but the question "at which level of prey density and biomass do big cats begin to kill livestock?" still remains unanswered. We applied logistic regression to meta-data compiled from recent peer-reviewed scientific publications and show that cattle predation is high when prey biomass is

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