Competition between domestic livestock and wild bharal Pseudois nayaur in the Indian Trans-Himalaya

By Charudutt Mishra, Sipke E. van Wieren, P. Ketner, Ignas M. A. Heitkönig, Herbert H. T. Prins. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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In Ecology

1. P. Taberlet
2. É. Coissac
3. F. Pompanon
4. W. Shehzad
5. Tiayyba Riaz
6. Chardutt Mishra
7. Jianguo Liu
8. E. Randi

In Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

1. Chardutt Mishra
2. R. García
3. U. García
4. M. Madhusudan
5. K. Osoro
6. Jianguo Liu
7. R. Celaya
8. S. Bagchi

Citations in the corpus

• Living with large carnivores: predation on livestock by the snow leopard (Uncia uncia) (2006, methodology): “All censuses were conducted in winter or spring, when wild ungulates congregate in lower, snow-free areas (Mishra et al., 2004).”
• Goat grazing, its interactions with other herbivores and biodiversity conservation issues (2012, background): “The Himalayan ibex deals with resource limitations imposed by migratory herds of goats and sheep around the Indian Trans-Himalayan pastures, while it is unaffected by the resident livestock as most species show habitat separation (Bagchi et al., 2004; Bhatnagar, 1997).”
• Restoring a keystone predator may endanger a prey species in a human‐altered ecosystem: the return of the snow leopard to Sagarmatha National Park (2009, background): “In an intensively grazed rangeland, for example, blue sheep density was 63% lower and this population showed a lower young-to-female ratio than elsewhere (Mishra et al., 2004).”
• Habitat shift and time budget of the Tibetan argali: the influence of livestock grazing (2006, background): “…hunting has been recognised as a primary factor affecting wild ungulate populations (Fox et al. 1991b; Schaller 1998), but the conservation challenge of competition with domestic livestock has received little attention until recently (Bagchi et al. 2004; Mishra et al. 2004; Fox and Tsering 2005).”
• Ecosystem and competition impacts of introduced deer (2008, unknown): “Evidence of variation in population performance from inter-specific competition has been demonstrated in other ungulates (Forsyth and Hickling 1998; Baldi et al. 2001; Mishra et al. 2004), but has not previously been shown for deer.”
• Conservation and climate change: Assessing the vulnerability of snow leopard habitat to treeline shift in the Himalaya (2012, unknown): “Snow leopard prey species, which are now displaced by livestock and persecuted by herders as competitors for forage (Mishra et al., 2004) could then become locally depleted, causing snow leopards to prey on livestock (Wegge et al., 2012), and resulting in increased rates of retaliatory killing…”
• Small mammalian herbivores as mediators of plant community dynamics in the high-altitude arid rangelands of Trans-himalaya (2006, unknown): “Most of these plant species are important constituents of herbivore diets (Harris and Miller, 1995; Bagchi et al., 2004; Mishra et al., 2004).”
• Evidence based review: positive versus negative effects of livestock grazing on wildlife. What do we really know? (2016, unknown): “Young to adult ratios decreased in bharal (Pseudois nayaur) (Mishra et al 2004, Suryawanshi et al 2010), showed no difference in chital (Axis axis) (Dave and Jhala 2011), and increased in red deer (Cervus elaphus) (Gordon 1988) in response to livestock grazing.”
• Snow leopard Panthera uncia predation on livestock and wild prey in a mountain valley in northern Nepal: implications for conservation management (2012, methodology): “At the same time, the relatively low recruitment rate of 56 kids/100 females in autumn (Shrestha & Wegge 2008b) could reflect relatively poor range conditions, possibly mediated through overstocking by livestock (Mishra et al. 2004), or it could reflect a very high predation pressure on young animal”
• Divergent responses of sympatric species to livestock encroachment at fine spatiotemporal scales (2017, background): “These impacts in turn have cascading effects on forest-dwelling wildlife that rely on forest resources for survival (Madhusudan, 2004;Mishra et al., 2004; Namgail et al., 2007).”
• Recovery of wild large herbivores following livestock decline in a tropical Indian wildlife reserve (2004, background): “In the pastoral trans-Himalayan region of Spiti, recent work has also reported a steady increase in bharal Pseudois nayaur numbers in a set-aside area protected from livestock grazing for more than 4 years (Mishra et al. 2003; Mishra et al. 2004).”
• Forest without prey: livestock sustain a leopard Panthera pardus population in Pakistan (2014, background): “Communities in the vicinity of wildlife parks and sanctuaries are reliant upon livestock for their livelihoods, resulting in increasing numbers of livestock even within protected areas (Mishra et al., 2004).”