University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2016
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Description:
Poaching is a global environmental threat, which drives populations of many species toward extinction. Current levels of poaching are unsustainable, causing substantial impacts on ecosystems and wildlife. By poaching, humans also limit the prey resources of large carnivores. Therefore, human hunters may compete with large carnivores over food resources and threaten their survival. However, the threat to large carnivores from prey depletion has rarely been quantified. In this study, I assessed the trophic competition between the endangered Persian leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) and loca...