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Free-ranging dogs and wildlife conservation /
Dogs are the world's most common and widespread carnivores and are nearly ubiquitous across the globe. The vast majority of these dogs, whether owned or un-owned, pure-bred or stray, spend a large portion of their life as unconfined, free-roaming animals, persisting at the interface of human an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: outlining the ecological influences of a subsidized, domesticated predator; How we see versus how wildlife sees dogs; The concept of the subsidized predator; The structure of this book; References; 1 The dog-human-wildlife interface: assessing the scope of the problem; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The dog is the most common carnivore; 1.3 How has the dog-human-wildlife interface developed?; 1.4 The demographics and ownership of free-ranging dogs; 1.5 Future research needs; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Dogs as predators and trophic regulators.
- 2.1 Introduction2.2 Dog diet: influence of location and ranging behavior; 2.3 Predation by dogs and its effects; 2.4 Human facilitation of dog predation of wildlife; 2.5 Ecosystem-wide effects of dogs; 2.6 Future research; References; 3 Top-dogs and under-dogs: competition between dogs and sympatric carnivores; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Dogs as interference competitors; 3.3 Exploitative competition; 3.4 Apparent competition; 3.5 Conservation implications; 3.6 Further research; References; 4 Dogs as agents of disturbance; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Dogs as stimuli; 4.3 The response of wildlife.
- 4.4 The impacts of dog disturbance on wildlife4.5 Managing dog disturbance; 4.6 Research needs; Acknowledgments; References; 5 Dog eat dog, cat eat dog: social-ecological dimensions of dog predation by wild carnivores; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Focal examples of wild carnivore predation on dogs; 5.3 Synthesis; 5.4 Implications for wild carnivore conservation; 5.5 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 6 Dogs, disease, and wildlife; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 The pathogen community; 6.3 Reservoirs of infection; 6.4 How species boundaries are crossed; 6.5 Managing interspecies transmission.
- 8.7 Conserving dog diversity8.8 Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 9 Dogs as mediators of conservation conflicts; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 History of use of dogs in conservation and management; 9.3 Reducing predation in agricultural systems; 9.4 Livestock protection dog breed selection; 9.5 Non-traditional uses in other conservation conflicts; 9.6 Potential limitations, conflicts, and problems; 9.7 Conclusions and future directions; References; 10 The current and future roles of free-ranging detection dogs in conservation efforts; 10.1 A brief history of detection dogs.