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Probing into farmers’ perceptions of a globally endangered ecosystem service provider
Título : Probing into farmers’ perceptions of a globally endangered ecosystem service provider |
Autor : García Alfonso, Marina Morales Reyes, Zebensui Gangoso, Laura Bouten, Willem Sánchez Zapata, José Antonio Serrano, David Donázar, José Antonio ![](/image/ORCID.jpg) |
Departamento: Departamentos de la UMH::Biología Aplicada |
Fecha de publicación: 2018-09-22 |
URI : http://hdl.handle.net/11000/6000 |
Resumen :
Society’s perception of ecosystem services is a
key issue in conservation, particularly for endangered
species providing services linked to human activities.
Misperceptions may lead to wildlife–human conflicts with
the risk of disappearance of the species involved. We
contrasted farmers’ perceptions with highly accurate
quantitative data of an endangered vulture species, which
provide ecosystem services. We combined surveys of 59
farmers with data from 48 GPS-tagged Canarian Egyptian
vultures (Neophron percnopterus majorensis endemic to
the Spanish Canary Islands) to disentangle factors
influencing consistency between farmers’ awareness of
vulture occurrence on their properties and vulture behavior.
Egyptian vultures were perceived as the main providers of
scavenging services and the most beneficial avian
scavenger. Consistency between farmers’ perceptions
(surveys) and vulture use of their farms (GPS data) was
higher in the morning, in older males, and at farms with
lower livestock numbers, located near vulture communal
roosts, and visited more frequently by vultures. Our results
underline the potential influence of modern livestock
husbandry in disconnecting people from ecosystems, and
how appreciation could be even lower for scarce or
threatened ecosystem service providers.
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Palabras clave/Materias: Biodiversity conservation Canary Islands Egyptian vultures GPS tracking Local ecological knowledge Social perception |
Área de conocimiento : Biología general y teórica |
Tipo documento : application/pdf |
Derechos de acceso: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-018-1102-3 |
Aparece en las colecciones: Artículos Biología Aplicada
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