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Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia

Crop raiding is a major form of human‐wildlife interaction mainly in the ecotone areas of human‐modified natural landscapes. The aim of this study was to examine the spatial pattern of crop raiding and the resultant impacts on how farmers perceive forests at different distances from Yayu Coffee Fore...

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Autores principales: Mamo, Alemayehu, Lemessa, Debissa, Diriba, Obsu Hirko, Hunde, Debela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8019031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7268
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author Mamo, Alemayehu
Lemessa, Debissa
Diriba, Obsu Hirko
Hunde, Debela
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description Crop raiding is a major form of human‐wildlife interaction mainly in the ecotone areas of human‐modified natural landscapes. The aim of this study was to examine the spatial pattern of crop raiding and the resultant impacts on how farmers perceive forests at different distances from Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve which is located in southwest Ethiopia. For this, thirty transects (each 1 km long) were laid out at 200 m interval parallel to forest edges: ten transects close to forest (<0.5 km), ten at intermediate (0.5–1 km), and ten transects were taken far from forest (>1 km). Along each transect, 2–6 households were randomly selected and interviewed using semistructured questionnaire. The perception of the respondents on forests at different distances from forest edges was analyzed using Pearson's Chi‐square test. The variation in the amount of damage among these three locations was tested using one‐way ANOVA. Four wild large mammals including olive baboon, vervet monkey, bush pigs, and crested porcupine were identified as top crop raiders in the area. The frequencies of occurrence of crop raiders decreased with increasing distance from forest edges. Similarly, the amount of damage in maize fields was higher close to forests when compared with that of either at intermediate or far from forest edges (p < .001). Eighty‐one percent of the households living close to the forests perceive that forest is a threat to their survival. Overall, our results imply that strategies need to be sought in order to minimize the socio‐ecological impacts of crop raiders mainly in locations close to forest edges.
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spelling pubmed-80190312021-04-08 Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia Mamo, Alemayehu Lemessa, Debissa Diriba, Obsu Hirko Hunde, Debela Ecol Evol Original Research Crop raiding is a major form of human‐wildlife interaction mainly in the ecotone areas of human‐modified natural landscapes. The aim of this study was to examine the spatial pattern of crop raiding and the resultant impacts on how farmers perceive forests at different distances from Yayu Coffee Forest Biosphere Reserve which is located in southwest Ethiopia. For this, thirty transects (each 1 km long) were laid out at 200 m interval parallel to forest edges: ten transects close to forest (<0.5 km), ten at intermediate (0.5–1 km), and ten transects were taken far from forest (>1 km). Along each transect, 2–6 households were randomly selected and interviewed using semistructured questionnaire. The perception of the respondents on forests at different distances from forest edges was analyzed using Pearson's Chi‐square test. The variation in the amount of damage among these three locations was tested using one‐way ANOVA. Four wild large mammals including olive baboon, vervet monkey, bush pigs, and crested porcupine were identified as top crop raiders in the area. The frequencies of occurrence of crop raiders decreased with increasing distance from forest edges. Similarly, the amount of damage in maize fields was higher close to forests when compared with that of either at intermediate or far from forest edges (p < .001). Eighty‐one percent of the households living close to the forests perceive that forest is a threat to their survival. Overall, our results imply that strategies need to be sought in order to minimize the socio‐ecological impacts of crop raiders mainly in locations close to forest edges. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8019031/ /pubmed/33841777 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7268 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia
title_full Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia
title_fullStr Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia
title_short Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia
title_sort pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in southwest ethiopia
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8019031/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841777
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7268
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