Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan
Human–carnivore conflict is one of the major challenges in the management of populations of large carnivores. Concerns include the increasing human population; habitat loss as a result of degradation and fragmentation of forest; and livestock predation as a result of a lack of natural prey, leading...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::c9e843e69e9ebdc831f6f2f2843895e5 2023-05-15T15:51:08+02:00 Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan Shehzad, Wasim Ali Nawaz, Muhammad Pompanon, François Coissac, Eric Riaz, Tiayyba Ali Shah, Safdar Taberlet, Pierre 2014-10-14 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1 en eng Dryad http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1 https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1 lic_creative-commons 10.5061/dryad.87rm1 oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:84603 oai:services.nod.dans.knaw.nl:Products/dans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:84603 10|openaire____::9e3be59865b2c1c335d32dae2fe7b254 10|re3data_____::94816e6421eeb072e7742ce6a9decc5f 10|re3data_____::84e123776089ce3c7a33db98d9cd15a8 re3data_____::r3d100000044 10|eurocrisdris::fe4903425d9040f680d8610d9079ea14 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 blocking oligonucleotide human-carnivore conflict DNA metabarcoding Next Generation Sequencing Panthera pardus Life sciences medicine and health care Ayubia National Park Pakistan envir geo Dataset https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_ddb1/ 2014 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1 2023-01-22T17:23:48Z Human–carnivore conflict is one of the major challenges in the management of populations of large carnivores. Concerns include the increasing human population; habitat loss as a result of degradation and fragmentation of forest; and livestock predation as a result of a lack of natural prey, leading to retaliatory killings of wild carnivores. Conflicts may be further aggravated by occasional attacks that result in injury and loss of human life. The level of consumption of prey species by a predator is a benchmark to evaluate the scale of this conflict. We used a newly developed DNA-based diet analysis to study the prey profile of common leopards Panthera pardus in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan. The results suggest that the common leopard is a generalist predator, subsisting mainly on domestic animals. Based on the frequency of occurrence of prey items in 57 faecal samples, the diet of the leopard is dominated by domestic goat Capra hircus (64.9%), followed by domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris (17.5%) and cow Bos taurus (12.3%). Domestic animals (goat, dog, cow, water buffalo Bubalus bubalis, horse Equus caballus and sheep Ovis aries) occurred in 54 (95%) of the 57 samples. We recommend a two-step strategy to mitigate this conflict: (1) introducing incentives for increased acceptance of leopards among local communities in the vicinity of the protected area and (2) increasing the availability of wild prey. We hope that the results of this study will contribute to the survival of the leopard in Pakistan. Unique sequences generated initially by NGS sequencingcontains files with unique sequences generated by next generation sequencingpp_bk_uniq#_sort.xlspp_uniq#_sort_l60c99_clean_rc_tag#_dryadThe sequences after cleaning the datapp_bk_filtered_dataContains file having data after filtration. The final result file for common leopard diet in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan Dataset Canis lupus Unknown |
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blocking oligonucleotide human-carnivore conflict DNA metabarcoding Next Generation Sequencing Panthera pardus Life sciences medicine and health care Ayubia National Park Pakistan envir geo Shehzad, Wasim Ali Nawaz, Muhammad Pompanon, François Coissac, Eric Riaz, Tiayyba Ali Shah, Safdar Taberlet, Pierre Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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Human–carnivore conflict is one of the major challenges in the management of populations of large carnivores. Concerns include the increasing human population; habitat loss as a result of degradation and fragmentation of forest; and livestock predation as a result of a lack of natural prey, leading to retaliatory killings of wild carnivores. Conflicts may be further aggravated by occasional attacks that result in injury and loss of human life. The level of consumption of prey species by a predator is a benchmark to evaluate the scale of this conflict. We used a newly developed DNA-based diet analysis to study the prey profile of common leopards Panthera pardus in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan. The results suggest that the common leopard is a generalist predator, subsisting mainly on domestic animals. Based on the frequency of occurrence of prey items in 57 faecal samples, the diet of the leopard is dominated by domestic goat Capra hircus (64.9%), followed by domestic dog Canis lupus familiaris (17.5%) and cow Bos taurus (12.3%). Domestic animals (goat, dog, cow, water buffalo Bubalus bubalis, horse Equus caballus and sheep Ovis aries) occurred in 54 (95%) of the 57 samples. We recommend a two-step strategy to mitigate this conflict: (1) introducing incentives for increased acceptance of leopards among local communities in the vicinity of the protected area and (2) increasing the availability of wild prey. We hope that the results of this study will contribute to the survival of the leopard in Pakistan. Unique sequences generated initially by NGS sequencingcontains files with unique sequences generated by next generation sequencingpp_bk_uniq#_sort.xlspp_uniq#_sort_l60c99_clean_rc_tag#_dryadThe sequences after cleaning the datapp_bk_filtered_dataContains file having data after filtration. The final result file for common leopard diet in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan |
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Shehzad, Wasim Ali Nawaz, Muhammad Pompanon, François Coissac, Eric Riaz, Tiayyba Ali Shah, Safdar Taberlet, Pierre |
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Shehzad, Wasim Ali Nawaz, Muhammad Pompanon, François Coissac, Eric Riaz, Tiayyba Ali Shah, Safdar Taberlet, Pierre |
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Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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Data from: Forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in Pakistan |
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data from: forest without prey: livestock sustain a common leopard population in pakistan |
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