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When pork is not on the menu: Assessing trophic competition between large carnivores and poachers

2017-05-01

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Overexploitation of wildlife for meat is a widespread phenomenon, which drives populations of many species toward extinction and may in turn affect large carnivores. Therefore, human hunters may compete with large carnivores over food resources and threaten their survival. In this study, we assessed the trophic competition of endangered Persian leopard with local poachers in Golestan National Park, Iran, where poa...

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Literature Corpus work: 0a25097e-8c83-549a-9fe5-6595cbe965f0
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.02.032

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