Managing the Livestock–Wildlife Interface on Rangelands

摘要: On rangelands the livestock–wildlife interface is mostly characterized by management actions aimed at controlling problems associated with competition, disease, and depredation. Wildlife communities (especially large vertebrate species) are typically incompatible agricultural development because opportunity costs of wildlife conservation unaffordable except in arid semi-arid regions. Ecological factors including provision supplementary food water for livestock, together persecution predators, result livestock replacing biomass densities far exceeding those indigenous ungulates. Diseases difficult to eradicate from free-ranging populations so veterinary controls usually focus on separating commercial herds wildlife. Persecution carnivores due their depredation has caused virtual eradication apex predators most rangelands. However, recent research points a broad range solutions reduce conflict interface. Conserving bolsters adaptive capacity rangeland providing stakeholders options dealing environmental change. This contingent upon local being empowered benefit directly resources within framework that integrates land-use sectors landscape scale. As undergo irreversible changes species invasions climate forcings, future perspective favors proactive shift attitude towards interface, problem control asset management.