Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia

S de Silva, T Wu, P Nyhus, A Weaver, A Thieme… - Scientific reports, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding historic patterns of land use and land cover change across large temporal
and spatial scales is critical for developing effective biodiversity conservation management …

Human casualties are the dominant cost of human–wildlife conflict in India

S Gulati, KK Karanth, NA Le… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Reducing the costs from human–wildlife conflict, mostly borne by marginal rural households,
is a priority for conservation. We estimate the mean species-specific cost for households …

[HTML][HTML] Public perceptions and attitudes toward urban wildlife encounters–A decade of change

SM Basak, MS Hossain, DT O'Mahony… - Science of the total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Europe is currently undergoing dynamic land use changes causing the expansion of urban
habitat, which is driving wildlife species to colonise conurbations, resulting in an increased …

A pan-African spatial assessment of human conflicts with lions and elephants

E Di Minin, R Slotow, C Fink, H Bauer… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
African lions (Panthera leo) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) and forest (L. cyclotis)
elephants pose threats to people, crops, and livestock, and are themselves threatened with …

Foraging synchrony drives resilience in human–dolphin mutualism

M Cantor, DR Farine… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Interactions between humans and nature have profound consequences, which rarely are
mutually beneficial. Further, behavioral and environmental changes can turn human–wildlife …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation conflicts: Behavioural threats, frames, and intervention recommendations

Z Baynham-Herd, S Redpath, N Bunnefeld… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conservation conflicts are widespread and are damaging for biodiversity, livelihoods and
human well-being. Conflict management often occurs through interventions targeting human …

Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment

AE Bates, RB Primack, BS Biggar, TJ Bird… - Biological …, 2021 - Elsevier
The global lockdown to mitigate COVID-19 pandemic health risks has altered human
interactions with nature. Here, we report immediate impacts of changes in human activities …

Human encroachment into wildlife gut microbiomes

G Fackelmann, MAF Gillingham, J Schmid… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
In the Anthropocene, humans, domesticated animals, wildlife, and their environments are
interconnected, especially as humans advance further into wildlife habitats. Wildlife gut …

Mapping full seismic waveforms to vertical velocity profiles by deep learning

V Kazei, O Ovcharenko, P Plotnitskii, D Peter, X Zhang… - Geophysics, 2021 - library.seg.org
Building realistic and reliable models of the subsurface is the primary goal of seismic
imaging. We have constructed an ensemble of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to …

[HTML][HTML] Mapping human‒wildlife conflict hotspots in a transboundary landscape, Eastern Himalaya

P Sharma, N Chettri, K Uddin, K Wangchuk… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Kangchenjunga Landscape, an important repository of biodiversity, faces
several challenges owing to various drivers of change. Human‒wildlife conflict (HWC) is …