Dog eat dog, cat eat dog: social-ecological dimensions of dog predation by wild carnivores

摘要: [Extract] Due to their close relationship with humans, and ability adapt a wide range of social-ecological systems, dogs (Canis familiaris) are probably the most numerous carnivores in world today. As global human population continues grow expand, more abundant widely distributed than ever before. This is particularly evident developing nations, where majority world's exists growth rates highest (Gompper, Chapter 1). Consequently, although have long been part ecology many landscapes, they becoming an even influential agent anthropogenic impact on biodiversity, interacting native wildlife hence potentially modifying ecosystems unprecedented degree (Hansen et al., 2005; Young 2011).