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dc.contributor.author | Benitez-Capistros, Francisco | - |
dc.contributor.author | Camperio, Giorgia | - |
dc.contributor.author | HUGE, Jean | - |
dc.contributor.author | Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid | - |
dc.contributor.author | Koedam, Nico | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-30T11:29:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-01-30T11:29:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | PLOS ONE, 13(9) (Art N° e0202268) | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1932-6203 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/27669 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The conservation of biodiverse areas around the world has contributed to the protection and recovery of endangered species. This has been the case for 11 species of Galapagos giant tortoises (Chelonoidis spp.) that today are successfully maintained over six islands: Espanola, Santiago, Pinzon, Isabela, San Cristobal and Santa Cruz. A favourable state of conservation will depend however on future development in the islands. In Santa Cruz Island the development of the agricultural areas has encroached on the migratory routes of the southwestern species C. porteri and may be an emergent conflict for tortoise conservation. We investigated the social and ecological inter-linkages using two methods framed under a participatory rural appraisal (PRA) approach: semi-structured interviews and questionnaires to study farmers' perceptions and attitudinal factors regarding giant tortoises; as well as the associated socio-economic impacts of the conflict. Moreover, we coupled the PRA approach with an ecological assessment of giant tortoises' population density by performing transect counts during the two yearly phases of giant tortoises' migration to the lowlands (January to June) and back to the highlands (July to December). Our results indicate that farmers reporting damage and cultivating crops have higher odds of taking actions (fencing and physical actions) towards giant tortoises; regardless of having (or not) a negative perception towards the species. The economic losses for crops and fences averaged 2.8 USD/m(2) and 13USD/m, respectively, and provide an initial step to further analyse and characterise the direct and indirect damage costs. Finally, we estimated a density of 76 and 185 individuals of giant tortoises per km(2) in the rural area for the lowland and highland migratory phases, respectively. Our approach provides grounded scientific social and ecological information to effectively inform and aid managers, policy and decision makers in the selection of adequate social and ecological criteria to implement the best available options in the resolution of this emergent conservation conflict. | - |
dc.description.sponsorship | The Ecuadorian National Secretary of Higher Education, Science, Technology and Innovation (SENESCYT 162-2012) provided a fixed financial support for research related activities under the Doctoral scholarship which was awarded between 2012-2016. The FeAdeAration Wallonie-Bruxelles (FWB BV-1515) provided a 2 month research field trip grant. GC acknowledges with thanks the part funded by EC-EACEA Erasmus Mundus scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus Masters Course in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems (TROPIMUNDO). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. | - |
dc.language.iso | en | - |
dc.publisher | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | - |
dc.rights | Copyright 2018 Benitez-Capistros et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | - |
dc.title | Emergent conservation conflicts in the Galapagos Islands: Human-giant tortoise interactions in the rural area of Santa Cruz Island | - |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 9 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 13 | - |
local.format.pages | 27 | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.jcat | A1 | - |
dc.description.notes | [Benitez-Capistros, Francisco] Cent Univ Ecuador, Biomed Res Inst INBIOMED, Quito, Ecuador. [Benitez-Capistros, Francisco; Huge, Jean] Vrije Univ Brussel, Dept Biol, Lab Plant Biol & Nat Management APNA Ecol & Biodi, Brussels, Belgium. [Benitez-Capistros, Francisco; Camperio, Giorgia; Huge, Jean; Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid; Koedam, Nico] Univ Libre Bruxelles, Dept Organism Biol, Lab Syst Ecol & Resource Management SERM, Brussels, Belgium. [Camperio, Giorgia; Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid] Swiss Fed Inst Technol, Dept Earth Sci, Zurich, Switzerland. [Camperio, Giorgia] Eawag, Dept Surface Waters Res & Management Dubendorf, Dubendorf, Switzerland. [Huge, Jean] Univ Hasselt, Ctr Environm Sci, Hasselt, Belgium. [Huge, Jean] Univ Ghent, Ctr Sustainable Dev, Ghent, Belgium. | - |
local.publisher.place | SAN FRANCISCO | - |
local.type.refereed | Refereed | - |
local.type.specified | Article | - |
local.bibliographicCitation.artnr | e0202268 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pone.0202268 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | 000444683000015 | - |
item.validation | ecoom 2019 | - |
item.fullcitation | Benitez-Capistros, Francisco; Camperio, Giorgia; HUGE, Jean; Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid & Koedam, Nico (2018) Emergent conservation conflicts in the Galapagos Islands: Human-giant tortoise interactions in the rural area of Santa Cruz Island. In: PLOS ONE, 13(9) (Art N° e0202268). | - |
item.contributor | Benitez-Capistros, Francisco | - |
item.contributor | Camperio, Giorgia | - |
item.contributor | HUGE, Jean | - |
item.contributor | Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid | - |
item.contributor | Koedam, Nico | - |
item.accessRights | Open Access | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
crisitem.journal.issn | 1932-6203 | - |
crisitem.journal.eissn | 1932-6203 | - |
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