RT Journal Article
T1 Usually hated, sometimes loved: A review of wild ungulates'contributions to people
A1 Pascual-Rico, Roberto
A1 Morales-Reyes, Zebensui
A1 Aguilera-Alcalá, Natividad
A1 Olszańska, Agnieszka
A1 Sebastián-González, Esther
A1 Naidoo, Robin
A1 Moleón, Marcos
A1 Lozano Mendoza, Jorge
A1 Botella, Francisco
A1 Wehrden, Henrik von
A1 Martín-López, Berta
A1 Sánchez-Zapata, José A.
AB Nature's contributions to people (NCP) may be both beneficial and detrimental to humans' quality of life. Since our origins, humans have been closely related to wild ungulates, which have traditionally played an outstanding role as a source of food or raw materials. Currently, wild ungulates are declining in some regions, but recovering in others throughout passive rewilding processes. This is reshaping human-ungulate interactions. Thus, adequately understanding the benefits and detriments associated with wild ungulate populations is necessary to promote humanungulate co-existence. Here, we reviewed 575 articles (2000-2019) on human-wild ungulate interactions to identify key knowledge gaps on NCP associated with wild ungulates. Wild ungulate research was mainly distributed into seven research clusters focussing on: (1) silvicultural damage in Eurasia; (2) herbivory and natural vegetation; (3) conflicts in urban areas of North America; (4) agricultural damage in Mediterranean agro-ecosystems; (5) social research in Africa and Asia; (6) agricultural damage in North America; (7) research in natural American Northwest areas. Research mostly focused on detrimental NCP. However, the number of publications mentioning beneficial contributions increased after the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services conceptual framework was implemented. Human-ungulate interactions' research was biased towards the Global North and Cervidae, Suidae and Bovidae families. Regarding detrimental NCP, most publications referred to production damage (e.g. crops), followed by biodiversity damage, and material damage (e.g. traffic collisions). Regarding beneficial NCP, publications mainly highlighted non-material contributions (e.g. recreational hunting), followed by material NCP and regulating contributions (e.g. habitat creation). The main actions taken to manage wild ungulate populations were lethal control and using deterrents and barriers (e.g. fencing), which effectiveness was rarely assessed. Increasing research and awareness about beneficial NCP and effective management tools may help to improve the conservation of wild ungulates and the ecosystems they inhabit to facilitate people-ungulate co-existence in the Anthropocene.
PB Elsevier
SN 0048-9697, ESSN: 1879-1026
YR 2021
FD 2021-08-14
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4664
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/4664
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universiades/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
NO Generalitat Valenciana/Fondo Social Euopeo
DS Docta Complutense
RD 6 abr 2025