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How can we look at coexistence in landscapes from the perspective of people and wildlife?
Coexistence with wildlife is becoming a key challenge in Europe as populations of large carnivores recover in human-dominated landscapes. We published a new article on modeling coexistence between humans and the endangered Apennine brown bears in Italy. The participatory modeling approach integrates both human-centered and bear-centered perspectives on the landscape and may help inform conservation decisions.
The importance of land use on different scales for birds in agricultural areas
A new paper of Noëlle Klein et al. compares the importance of field-level land use compared to landscape-level land use and the influence of directly surrounding land use for birds in agricultural landscapes.