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DOI | 10.1002/fee.2336 |
Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey | |
Sophie Gilbert; Neil Carter; Robin Naidoo | |
2021-03-31 | |
发表期刊 | Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
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出版年 | 2021 |
英文摘要 | Conservation of predators – especially large carnivores and those that potentially pose threats to humans – can be controversial among stakeholders who must coexist with them. What is often overlooked, however, are the direct and indirect ecosystem services and disservices predators provide as a result of consumption of herbivores (“predation services”). We used a theoretical predator–prey–economic model to examine when predators are likely to provide a net service to society, by comparing services/disservices to a predator-free counterfactual scenario. We found that net predator services were strongly dependent on how per-capita services and disservices of predators and prey changed with abundance (ie assumed marginal value [MV] functions of service/disservice). We suggest that further empirical research is needed into MVs of services/disservices of wildlife, because transferring net services among locations – a common practice – is problematic unless MV functions are known. Rigorously quantifying services/disservices of predators could improve conservation and management outcomes by increasing effective communication to diverse stakeholders. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/329811 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sophie Gilbert,Neil Carter,Robin Naidoo. Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey[J]. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment,2021. |
APA | Sophie Gilbert,Neil Carter,&Robin Naidoo.(2021).Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey.Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. |
MLA | Sophie Gilbert,et al."Predation services: quantifying societal effects of predators and their prey".Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2021). |
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