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Human-felid conflict: a review of patterns and priorities worldwide
ReviewInskip and Zimmermann produced a comprehensive global review of conflict between people and wild cats, synthesising the geography, drivers, and severity of conflict across all felid species. They iden…
Chloe Inskip, Alexandra Zimmermann · Oryx · 2009
Research overview: future directions in human-big cat coexistence research
OverviewThis overview synthesises emerging priorities and frontiers in human-big cat conflict and coexistence research. It reviews calls for more rigorous impact evaluation, greater integration of social scie…
Research overview: how GPS and biologging reshaped big-cat ecology
OverviewThe advent of GPS collars and biologging sensors has revolutionized the study of big-cat movement, hunting, and energetics. This overview synthesizes how high-resolution location data revealed kill si…
Research overview: landscape and husbandry predictors of livestock depredation
OverviewThis overview synthesises studies identifying which landscape and management variables predict where big cats kill livestock, a recurring quantitative question across conflict research. It reviews con…
Research overview: net squared displacement to classify movement strategies
OverviewNet squared displacement, the squared straight-line distance from a starting point over time, provides a simple but powerful way to classify whole-trajectory movement strategies. This overview describ…
Research overview: three-dimensional and seasonal home-range estimation
OverviewStandard home ranges flatten an animal's world onto a two-dimensional map, but cats in mountainous terrain move through strongly three-dimensional space, and their ranges shift across seasons. This ov…
Research overview: tourism benefits and their effect on tolerance for big cats
OverviewThis overview synthesises research on whether wildlife-tourism revenue increases local tolerance for big cats by offsetting conflict costs. It reviews cases from jaguar tourism in the Pantanal, lion t…
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