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A novel application of hierarchical modelling to decouple sampling artifacts from socio-ecological effects on poaching intensity

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BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
卷 267, 期 -, 页码 -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2022.109488

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Economic factors; Illegal killing; Large mammals; N-mixture model; Protected areas; Ranger station

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  1. PRIME programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD-PRIME) [57436650]
  2. German Federal Ministry of Ed-ucation and Research (BMBF)
  3. Feodor-Lynen fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foun-dation, Germany [DEU 1220304-FLF-P]
  4. [3.1-DEU 1220304-FLF-P]
  5. [2021-2023]

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Poaching is a major driver of wildlife population decline globally, and accurately quantifying its scale and intensity, as well as understanding its drivers, is crucial for its reduction. This study developed a model using data from Iran to accurately estimate annual poaching of ungulates and identified the relationship between poaching intensity and economic conditions, law enforcement, and other factors.
Poaching is a global driver of wildlife population decline, including inside protected areas (PAs). Reducing poaching requires an understanding of its cryptic drivers and accurately quantifying poaching scales and intensity. There is little quantification of how poaching is affected by law enforcement intensity (e.g., ranger stations) versus economic factors (e.g., unemployment), while simultaneously accounting for imperfect detection. Using extensive data of poaching events (i.e., seizures) and censuses of nine ungulate species across the PAs and unprotected lands of Iran from 2010 to 2018, we developed a single-visit hierarchical (N-mixture) model to accurately estimate annual poaching of Iranian ungulates and to differentiate between social and ecological effects on annual poaching intensity. We found that poaching detectability increased with numbers of ranger stations. A recent surge in poaching (2013-2018) coincides with rising unemployment rate. We estimated that 19,727 ungulates (95% confidence interval 11,178-36,195) were poached across the country during 2010-2018. Poaching intensity was positively related to unemployment rate, road density, and ungulate abundance. Our simulations demonstrated that the Poisson and Negative binomial N-mixture models had adequate performance when the conditions of S acute accent olymos et al. (2012) were satisfied, in particular, when at least one covariate is unique to both the detection and abundance parts of the model. Overall, we suggest that single-visit models offer unique insights into understanding the link between poaching intensity, economic conditions , law enforcement in large-scale landscapes while accounting for imperfect detection of poaching events.

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