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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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:4996108 2024-09-15T18:01:26+00:00 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 unknown Zenodo https://doi.org/10.1017/S0030605313001026 https://zenodo.org/communities/dryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm1 oai:zenodo.org:4996108 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode blocking oligonucleotide human-carnivore conflict Next Generation Sequencing Panthera pardus info:eu-repo/semantics/other 2014 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.87rm110.1017/S0030605313001026 2024-07-26T02:21:38Z 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 sequencing contains files with unique sequences generated by next generation sequencing pp_bk_uniq#_sort.xls pp_uniq#_sort_l60c99_clean_rc_tag#_dryad The sequences after cleaning the data pp_bk_filtered_data Contains file having data after filtration. The final result file for common leopard diet in Ayubia National Park, Pakistan Other/Unknown Material Canis lupus Zenodo |
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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 sequencing contains files with unique sequences generated by next generation sequencing pp_bk_uniq#_sort.xls pp_uniq#_sort_l60c99_clean_rc_tag#_dryad The sequences after cleaning the data pp_bk_filtered_data Contains 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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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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