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dc.contributor.authorPozo, Rocío Aen_UK
dc.contributor.authorCusack, Jeremy Jen_UK
dc.contributor.authorMcCulloch, Grahamen_UK
dc.contributor.authorStronza, Amandaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorSonghurst, Annaen_UK
dc.contributor.authorCoulson, Timen_UK
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-19T01:00:13Z-
dc.date.available2018-12-19T01:00:13Z-
dc.date.issued2018-12-31en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/28425-
dc.description.abstractElephant crop-damage is a consequence of interactions between people and elephants that impact people's livelihoods and biodiversity conservation efforts. Conflicts between people and elephants usually occur when there is overlap in elephant and human space-use leading to competition for resources. Therefore, understanding space-use patterns by elephants is key to alleviating negative human-elephant interactions. In the eastern Okavango Panhandle (Botswana), >16,000 people share resources with 18,000 elephants. Using data from 20 GPS-collared elephants, we investigated elephant space-use in relation to landscape variables during the day and night throughout the year and during the dry, wet and crop-damage seasons. We compared elephant space-use and crop-damage occurrence during the crop-damage seasons of 2014–2016. We found that elephant space-use was determined primarily by distance to waterholes and areas away from agricultural fields. However, predicting elephant space-use at the large scale was challenging. In particular, during the crop-damage season when the relationship between crop-damage events and elephant distribution was found to be non-linear. This revealed that areas that elephants frequently use might not be good indicators of the likelihood of crop-damage. Based on our findings, we suggest deterring elephants from peoples' crops at the local scale is the most appropriate strategy for reducing elephant impacts on crops, alongside landscape scale interventions. We encourage future studies to use combinations of spatiotemporal methods, as well as practitioners to focus their efforts at the local scale, protecting elephant corridors, and supporting farmers to collaboratively work to decrease elephant crop-loss.en_UK
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherElsevieren_UK
dc.relationPozo RA, Cusack JJ, McCulloch G, Stronza A, Songhurst A & Coulson T (2018) Elephant space-use is not a good predictor of crop-damage. Biological Conservation, 228, pp. 241-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2018.10.031en_UK
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dc.subjectHuman-wildlife conflicten_UK
dc.subjectCrop-raidingen_UK
dc.subjectCrop-lossen_UK
dc.subjectMovementen_UK
dc.subjectSatellite collaren_UK
dc.subjectBotswanaen_UK
dc.titleElephant space-use is not a good predictor of crop-damageen_UK
dc.typeJournal Articleen_UK
dc.rights.embargodate2999-12-31en_UK
dc.rights.embargoreason[1-s2.0-S0006320718304385-main.pdf] The publisher does not allow this work to be made publicly available in this Repository therefore there is an embargo on the full text of the work.en_UK
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.biocon.2018.10.031en_UK
dc.citation.jtitleBiological Conservationen_UK
dc.citation.issn0006-3207en_UK
dc.citation.volume228en_UK
dc.citation.spage241en_UK
dc.citation.epage251en_UK
dc.citation.publicationstatusPublisheden_UK
dc.citation.peerreviewedRefereeden_UK
dc.type.statusVoR - Version of Recorden_UK
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commissionen_UK
dc.author.emailjeremy.cusack@stir.ac.uken_UK
dc.citation.date02/11/2018en_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationBiological and Environmental Sciencesen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationBiological and Environmental Sciencesen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationTexas A&M Universityen_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Oxforden_UK
dc.identifier.wtid1061585en_UK
dc.contributor.orcid0000-0003-3004-1586en_UK
dc.date.accepted2018-10-26en_UK
dcterms.dateAccepted2018-10-26en_UK
dc.date.filedepositdate2018-12-18en_UK
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local.rioxx.authorPozo, Rocío A|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorCusack, Jeremy J|0000-0003-3004-1586en_UK
local.rioxx.authorMcCulloch, Graham|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorStronza, Amanda|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorSonghurst, Anna|en_UK
local.rioxx.authorCoulson, Tim|en_UK
local.rioxx.projectProject ID unknown|European Commission (Horizon 2020)|en_UK
local.rioxx.freetoreaddate2268-10-03en_UK
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