CARNIVORE BASICS
Carnivores belong to this mammalian order.
What is Carnivora
The number one global threat to carnivores caused by expanding human land use.
What is habitat loss
A trophic cascade happens when removing predators increases this trophic level.
What is herbivores
Guard dogs, hazing, and relocation are examples of this approach to conflict reduction.
What is non lethal conflict mitigation
According to Di Minin et al., trophy hunting can support conservation mainly by generating this.
What is conservation funding
Home range size in carnivores increases with this trait.
What is body weight
This type of exploitation includes overhunting and retaliatory killing.
What is overexploitation
Wolves reducing coyotes and increasing foxes helps reduce this human disease.
What is Lyme disease
Wildlife corridors promote gene flow and reduce accidental mortality, an example of this strategy.
What is habitat connectivity
Some researchers argue that maintaining high populations of trophy species can harm ecosystems through this plant level impact.
What is overgrazing or overbrowsing
Large carnivores are rare partly because they occupy this trophic position.
What is high trophic position
Climate change affects carnivores and marine mammals when this frozen habitat melts.
What is sea ice
The global decline of apex consumers leads to this phenomenon described as loss of ecosystem structure.
What is trophic downgrading
Paying farmers for lost livestock is called this.
What are depredation payments
Trophy hunting on game ranches can alter ecosystems when managers prioritize these types of animals.
What are high value trophy species (Bigger animals)
This percentage of the world’s 30 largest carnivores are threatened.
Toxic pollutants like rodenticides and PCBs fall under this threat category.
What is pollution
Removing apex predators can reduce biodiversity through the rise of these mid-level species.
What are mesocarnivores
Question: Deciding whether to fence wildlife populations relates to managing this ecological issue.
What is fragmentation and movement limitation
Selectively harvesting animals with large horns or manes can cause this evolutionary consequence.
What is decline in heritable trophy traits or artificial selection (Smaller horns, ETC)
Large carnivores have experienced this percentage of historical range loss.
47%
This virus spreads from domestic animals to species like African wild dogs.
What is canine distemper virus
When predators keep herbivore numbers low, plant growth rises. This effect is part of what ecological concept?
What is top down control
Conservation programs that involve local people and share revenue follow this model.
What is community based conservation
Fencing associated with game ranches creates this major ecological problem.
What is fragmentation or disrupted dispersal and gene flow