Staging behaviours identify spatial and temporal risk of human-wildlife conflict.

Abstract.

Habitat conversion to farmland has increased human-wildlife interactions, which often lead to conflict, injury or death for people and animals. Understanding the behavioural and landscape drivers of human-wildlife conflict is critical for managing wildlife populations. Staging behaviour prior to crop incursions has been described across multiple taxa and offers potential utility in managing conflict, but few quantitative assessments of staging have been undertaken. Animal movement data can provide valuable, fine-scale information on such behaviour with opportunities for application to real-time management for conflict prediction. Read the full article.

Authors

Nathan R. Hahn

Jake Wall

Kristen Denninger-Snyder

Wilson Sairowua

Marc Goss

Stephen Ndambuki

Ernest Eblate

Noel Mbise

Sospeter Kiambi

George Wittemyer