Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina

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Lucherini, Mauro; Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes; Caruso, Nicolás; Casanave, Emma Beatriz; Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris
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2014
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Puma (Puma concolor) still has a widespread distribution in Argentina. However, many populations are threatened by habitat destruction and direct killing associated to the spreading of croplands and ranchlands. This is the case of pumas inhabiting the Espinal of the central Argentina lowlands, an ecoregion marking the transition from the Pampas grasslands, where the puma has almost gone extinct, to the Monte woodlands. In this region, the intense fragmentation of natural habitats and decrease of native prey has increased the encroachment of pumas with livestock. Retaliatory killing, which is the common response to puma predation on cattle, is increasing and local ranchers are requesting a legal bounty system to hunt pumas. We report the results of the first steps of a project aiming to understand the ecology of puma populations in the Espinal, characterize puma-livestock conflicts, and identify conflict mitigation strategies. 148 semi-structured interviews to local ranchers show that 45.7% of respondents think that pumas cause major damage, 47.5% reported losses caused by pumas in the previous year and 70.2% considered that predator control was the best solution to conflicts. Landscape-scale camera trap surveys (totaling an effort of 7054 trap-days) produced 45 records of pumas in 11.5% of 184 sampling stations. A preliminary habitat suitability analysis based on 110 presence records suggests that most suitable locations for puma were away from cropland or urban areas and from the main roads, distances to roads and to scrubland patches were the variables affecting the most its niche breadth, and only 16.3% of the region has a high quality for this felid. Our results suggest that whereas pumas in central Argentina may tolerate some degree of habitat degradation and human-related mortality, humans are rarely willing to tolerate economic losses caused by depredation and that conflict mitigation measures are required to ensure puma conservation.
Fil: Lucherini, Mauro. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Caruso, Nicolás. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Casanave, Emma Beatriz. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
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spelling Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central ArgentinaLucherini, MauroGuerisoli, Maria de Las MercedesCaruso, NicolásCasanave, Emma BeatrizLuengos Vidal, Estela MarisPUMA CONCOLORHUMAN-CARNIVORE CONFLICTSLIVESTOCK PRODUCCTIONESPINALhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1Puma (Puma concolor) still has a widespread distribution in Argentina. However, many populations are threatened by habitat destruction and direct killing associated to the spreading of croplands and ranchlands. This is the case of pumas inhabiting the Espinal of the central Argentina lowlands, an ecoregion marking the transition from the Pampas grasslands, where the puma has almost gone extinct, to the Monte woodlands. In this region, the intense fragmentation of natural habitats and decrease of native prey has increased the encroachment of pumas with livestock. Retaliatory killing, which is the common response to puma predation on cattle, is increasing and local ranchers are requesting a legal bounty system to hunt pumas. We report the results of the first steps of a project aiming to understand the ecology of puma populations in the Espinal, characterize puma-livestock conflicts, and identify conflict mitigation strategies. 148 semi-structured interviews to local ranchers show that 45.7% of respondents think that pumas cause major damage, 47.5% reported losses caused by pumas in the previous year and 70.2% considered that predator control was the best solution to conflicts. Landscape-scale camera trap surveys (totaling an effort of 7054 trap-days) produced 45 records of pumas in 11.5% of 184 sampling stations. A preliminary habitat suitability analysis based on 110 presence records suggests that most suitable locations for puma were away from cropland or urban areas and from the main roads, distances to roads and to scrubland patches were the variables affecting the most its niche breadth, and only 16.3% of the region has a high quality for this felid. Our results suggest that whereas pumas in central Argentina may tolerate some degree of habitat degradation and human-related mortality, humans are rarely willing to tolerate economic losses caused by depredation and that conflict mitigation measures are required to ensure puma conservation.Fil: Lucherini, Mauro. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Caruso, Nicolás. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Casanave, Emma Beatriz. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; ArgentinaFil: Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. 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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
title Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
spellingShingle Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
Lucherini, Mauro
PUMA CONCOLOR
HUMAN-CARNIVORE CONFLICTS
LIVESTOCK PRODUCCTION
ESPINAL
title_short Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
title_full Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
title_fullStr Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
title_sort Correlates of pume-livestock conflicts in the Espinal of Central Argentina
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lucherini, Mauro
Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes
Caruso, Nicolás
Casanave, Emma Beatriz
Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris
author Lucherini, Mauro
author_facet Lucherini, Mauro
Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes
Caruso, Nicolás
Casanave, Emma Beatriz
Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris
author_role author
author2 Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes
Caruso, Nicolás
Casanave, Emma Beatriz
Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Shivik, John
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv PUMA CONCOLOR
HUMAN-CARNIVORE CONFLICTS
LIVESTOCK PRODUCCTION
ESPINAL
topic PUMA CONCOLOR
HUMAN-CARNIVORE CONFLICTS
LIVESTOCK PRODUCCTION
ESPINAL
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv Puma (Puma concolor) still has a widespread distribution in Argentina. However, many populations are threatened by habitat destruction and direct killing associated to the spreading of croplands and ranchlands. This is the case of pumas inhabiting the Espinal of the central Argentina lowlands, an ecoregion marking the transition from the Pampas grasslands, where the puma has almost gone extinct, to the Monte woodlands. In this region, the intense fragmentation of natural habitats and decrease of native prey has increased the encroachment of pumas with livestock. Retaliatory killing, which is the common response to puma predation on cattle, is increasing and local ranchers are requesting a legal bounty system to hunt pumas. We report the results of the first steps of a project aiming to understand the ecology of puma populations in the Espinal, characterize puma-livestock conflicts, and identify conflict mitigation strategies. 148 semi-structured interviews to local ranchers show that 45.7% of respondents think that pumas cause major damage, 47.5% reported losses caused by pumas in the previous year and 70.2% considered that predator control was the best solution to conflicts. Landscape-scale camera trap surveys (totaling an effort of 7054 trap-days) produced 45 records of pumas in 11.5% of 184 sampling stations. A preliminary habitat suitability analysis based on 110 presence records suggests that most suitable locations for puma were away from cropland or urban areas and from the main roads, distances to roads and to scrubland patches were the variables affecting the most its niche breadth, and only 16.3% of the region has a high quality for this felid. Our results suggest that whereas pumas in central Argentina may tolerate some degree of habitat degradation and human-related mortality, humans are rarely willing to tolerate economic losses caused by depredation and that conflict mitigation measures are required to ensure puma conservation.
Fil: Lucherini, Mauro. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Guerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Caruso, Nicolás. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Casanave, Emma Beatriz. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
Fil: Luengos Vidal, Estela Maris. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Cátedra de Fisiología Animal; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Biología, Bioquímica y Farmacia. Instituto de Ciencias Biológicas y Biomédicas del Sur; Argentina
11th Mountain Lion Workshop "Integrating Scientific Findings into Management"
Utah
Estados Unidos
The Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
description Puma (Puma concolor) still has a widespread distribution in Argentina. However, many populations are threatened by habitat destruction and direct killing associated to the spreading of croplands and ranchlands. This is the case of pumas inhabiting the Espinal of the central Argentina lowlands, an ecoregion marking the transition from the Pampas grasslands, where the puma has almost gone extinct, to the Monte woodlands. In this region, the intense fragmentation of natural habitats and decrease of native prey has increased the encroachment of pumas with livestock. Retaliatory killing, which is the common response to puma predation on cattle, is increasing and local ranchers are requesting a legal bounty system to hunt pumas. We report the results of the first steps of a project aiming to understand the ecology of puma populations in the Espinal, characterize puma-livestock conflicts, and identify conflict mitigation strategies. 148 semi-structured interviews to local ranchers show that 45.7% of respondents think that pumas cause major damage, 47.5% reported losses caused by pumas in the previous year and 70.2% considered that predator control was the best solution to conflicts. Landscape-scale camera trap surveys (totaling an effort of 7054 trap-days) produced 45 records of pumas in 11.5% of 184 sampling stations. A preliminary habitat suitability analysis based on 110 presence records suggests that most suitable locations for puma were away from cropland or urban areas and from the main roads, distances to roads and to scrubland patches were the variables affecting the most its niche breadth, and only 16.3% of the region has a high quality for this felid. Our results suggest that whereas pumas in central Argentina may tolerate some degree of habitat degradation and human-related mortality, humans are rarely willing to tolerate economic losses caused by depredation and that conflict mitigation measures are required to ensure puma conservation.
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