Data from: Examining human-carnivore interactions using a socio-ecological framework: sympatric wild canids in India as a case study ...

• Main Author: Srivathsa, Arjun
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: sign surveys; coexistence; Occupancy Modelling; depredation; interviews; Indian; Canis lupus; gray wolf
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.q3t310k; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.q3t310k

Many carnivores inhabit human-dominated landscapes outside protected reserves. Spatially explicit assessments of carnivore distributions and livestock depredation patterns in human-use landscapes are crucial for minimising negative interactions and fostering coexistence between people and predators. India harbors 23% of the world’s carnivore species that share space with 1.3 billion people in ~2.3% of the global land area. We examined carnivore distributions and human-carnivore interactions in a multi-use forest landscape in central India. We focused on five sympatric carnivore species: Indian gray wolf Canis lupus pallipes, dhole Cuon alpinus, Indian jackal C. aureus indicus, Indian fox Vulpes bengalensis and striped hyena Hyaena hyaena. Carnivore occupancy ranged from 12% for dholes to 86% for jackals, mostly influenced by forests, open scrublands, and terrain ruggedness. Livestock/poultry depredation probability in the landscape ranged from 21% for dholes to >95% for jackals, influenced by land cover ... : Data_Srivathsa_etal2018 ...