Behavioral Causes, Ecological Consequences, and Management Challenges Associated with Wildlife Foraging in Human-Modified Landscapes
| Autor: | Andrew J. King, M. Justin O'Riain, Ines Fürtbauer, Gaelle Fehlmann |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Government human–wildlife conflict time and energy budgets Human–wildlife conflict Ecology AcademicSubjects/SCI00010 Rural land 05 social sciences Foraging Wildlife 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Overview Articles behavioral plasticity Editor's Choice Geography Behavioral plasticity movement ecology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences AcademicSubjects/SOC02100 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology raiding General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Agricultural crops |
| Zdroj: | Bioscience |
| ISSN: | 1525-3244 0006-3568 |
| Popis: | 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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