Human-wildlife conflict is a major threat to survival and viability of many native animal species worldwide. Successful management of this conflict requires evidence-based understanding of the complex system of factors that motivate and facilitate it. However, for many affected species, data on this sensitive subject are too sparse for many statistical techniques. This study considers two iconic wild cats under threat in diverse locations and employs a Bayesian Network approach to integrate expert-elicited information into a probabilistic model of the factors affecting human-wildlife conflict. The two species considered are cheetahs in Botswana and jaguars in the Peruvian Amazon. Results of the individual network models are presented and the relative importance of different conservation management strategies are presented and discussed. The study highlights the strengths of the Bayesian Network approach for quantitatively describing complex, data-poor real world systems.
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Davis, J., Good, K., Hunter, V., Johnson, S., & Mengersen, K. L. (2020). Bayesian Networks for Understanding Human-Wildlife Conflict in Conservation. In Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Vol. 2259, pp. 347–370). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42553-1_14
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