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An analysis of long-term trends in the abundance of domestic livestock and free-roaming dogs in the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia

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Livestock inside the Bale Mountains National Park poses a threat to the persistence of the Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis) through grazing-induced habitat degradation and the transmission of diseases from the domestic dogs kept alongside the herds. We used a 21-year time series to explore long-term trends in the numbers of cattle, caprines and free-roaming domestic dogs in two core Ethiopian wolf areas (the Web valley and the Sanetti plateau) and to test whether seasonal variations in primary...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Zoology
Role:
Author
Journal:
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
Volume:
49
Issue:
1
Pages:
91-102
Publication date:
2011-03-01
DOI:
EISSN:
1365-2028
ISSN:
0141-6707
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
pubs:210262
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uuid:8d0d8cca-eefb-45fa-974c-a70538a41fbe
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pubs:210262
Source identifiers:
210262
Deposit date:
2013-11-16

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