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Journal Article |
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Author:
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Morzillo, Anita T.; de Beurs, Kirsten M.; Martin-Mikle, Chelsea J. |
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Journal:
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Ecology and Society |
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Volume:
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19 |
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Date:
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2014 |
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9675
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Wildlife |
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Subject(s):
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wildlife
resource management
land tenure and use
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Abstract:
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"Landscape characteristics affect human-wildlife interactions. However, there is a need to better understand mechanisms that drive those interactions, particularly feedbacks that exist between wildlife-related impacts, human reaction to and behavior as a result of those impacts, and how land use and landscape characteristics may influence those components within coupled human and natural systems. Current conceptual models of human-wildlife interactions often focus on species population size as the independent variable driving those interactions. Such an approach potentially overlooks important feedbacks among and drivers of human-wildlife interactions that result from mere wildlife presence versus absence. We describe an emerging conceptual framework that focuses on wildlife as a driver of human behavior and allows us to better understand linkages between humans, wildlife, and the broader landscape. We also present results of a pilot analysis related to our own ongoing study of urban rodent control behavior to illustrate one application of this framework within a study of urban landscapes."
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