Effects of livestock on guanaco Lama guanicoe density, movements and habitat selection in a forest-grassland mosaic in Tierra del Fuego, Chile

• Published in: Oryx
• Main Authors: Moraga, Claudio A., Funes, Martín C., Pizarro Pinochet, Jose Cristobal, Briceño, Cristobal, Novaro, Andres Jose
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press
• Subjects: Camelid Conservation; Chile; Lama Guanicae; Livestock; Partial Migration; Sheep; Sub Antartic Fores; Ungulates; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Funes; Pinochet; antartic*; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/12041

Locally abundant ungulates often come into conflict with human activities. After a population collapse that reached its nadir in the 1970s, the guanaco Lama guanicoe population in Tierra del Fuego, Chile, recovered and is now in conflict with sheep ranching and commercial logging. We studied the eff...