Essays about: "carnivores"
Showing result 16 - 20 of 69 essays containing the word carnivores.
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16. Improving the welfare of the Amur leopards (Panthera pardus orientalis) at Nordens Ark (Sweden)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthAbstract : Since recent years, people do not only want to prevent animal cruelty anymore, but also want to improve their welfare. Therefore, zoo institutions are under pressure to assure the wellbeing of their animals. And even though they work very hard to achieve this, it is not an easy job. READ MORE
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17. Attitudes towards local carnivores in Umeå, Sweden : investigating species and individual effects on attitudes towards Carnivores in the confines of a local community
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : The expanding human population is leading to increases in urbanisation and changing land-use. The space between wildlife and humans is diminishing as wildlife adapts to environmental changes caused by urbanisation. With an increasing number of species moving into an urban environment we see increasing encounters between humans and wildlife. READ MORE
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18. Importance of fish community structure, nutrients and browning for shallow lake ecosystem dynamics : A modelling perspective
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildningAbstract : In a changing climate, it is increasingly important to be able to model environmental effects on food webs, and to do that, one must have appropriate dynamic models. I present a shallow lake ecosystem model where producers, grazers, carnivores, piscivores, and detritivores are coupled through resource (light, nutrients and detritus) fluxes between the benthic and pelagic habitats and through carnivore life history events (ontogenetic habitat and diet shifts). READ MORE
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19. Rovdjurskonflikt : boskapsförluster orsakade av lejon
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Animal Environment and HealthAbstract : Det pågår idag en konflikt i Afrika med lejon och pastoralister inblandade. Konflikten verkar öka i takt med att människor med boskap blir fler och lejonens habitat och bytesdjur minskar. Detta litteraturarbete syftar till att utreda de konsekvenser som följer förluster av boskap, både för djurhållaren och för lejonpopulationen. READ MORE
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20. Assessing trust in the Swedish survey system for large carnivores among stakeholders
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesAbstract : The human-carnivore conflict in Sweden has been a fact for centuries. Dating back several decades, there has been a reversal in the management of large carnivores towards conservation instead of eradication. READ MORE
