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Behavioral Causes, Ecological Consequences, and Management Challenges Associated with Wildlife Foraging in Human-Modified Landscapes
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Andrew King
BioScience, Volume: 71, Issue: 1
Swansea University Authors:
Ines Fuertbauer , Andrew King
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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/biosci/biaa129
Abstract
Humans have altered up to half of the world's land surface. Wildlife living within or close to these human-modified landscapes are presented with opportunities and risks associated with feeding on human-derived foods (e.g., agricultural crops and food waste). Understanding whether and how wildl...
| Published in: | BioScience |
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| ISSN: | 0006-3568 1525-3244 |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2020
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa55862 |
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Humans have altered up to half of the world's land surface. Wildlife living within or close to these human-modified landscapes are presented with opportunities and risks associated with feeding on human-derived foods (e.g., agricultural crops and food waste). Understanding whether and how wildlife adapts to these landscapes is a major challenge, with thousands of studies published on the topic over the past 10 years. In the present article, we build on established theoretical frameworks to understand the behavioral causes of crop and urban foraging by wildlife. We then develop and extend this framework to describe the multifaceted ecological consequences of crop and urban foraging for the individuals and populations in which they arise, with emphasis on social species for which interactions with people are, on balance, negative (commonly referred to as raiding species). Finally, we discuss the management challenges faced by urban and rural land managers, businesses, and government organizations in mitigating human–wildlife conflicts and propose ways to improve the lives of both wildlife and humans living in human-modified landscapes and to promote coexistence. |
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| Keywords: |
human–wildlife conflict, raiding, behavioral plasticity, movement ecology, time and energy budgets |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
| Funders: |
UKRI, NE/M015351/1 |
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1 |