Adrian Treves
Biographic Data
| ID | 156414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adrian Treves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adrian |
| FAMILY NAME | Treves |
| SIGNATURE | TREVES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3052-4708 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores
The growing complexity and global nature of wildlife poaching threaten the survival of many species worldwide and are outpacing conservation efforts. Here, we reviewed proximal and distal factors, both social and ecological, driving illegal killing or poaching of large carnivores at sites where it can potentially occur. Through this review, we developed a conceptual social-ecological system framework that ties together many of the factors influen…
Tolerant Attitudes Reflect an Intent to Steward
The terms tolerance and intolerance are widely used by scholars and managers alike because they are widely understood in contexts beyond attitudes or behavior toward wildlife. Tolerance is a frame of mind; thus, intolerance should also be considered one. Redefining intolerance as the opposite of stewardship would conflate intention and behavior; thus, I argue that tolerance–neutrality–intolerance should be a continuum of attitudes, whereas stewar…
Attitudes to Wolves and Wolf Policy Among Ojibwe Tribal Members and Non-tribal Residents of Wisconsin's Wolf Range
Gray wolf (Canis lupus) policy is dynamic and involves multiple stakeholders. Attitudinal surveys have historically measured stakeholder attitudes, although Native American views have rarely been studied systematically. We sent a mail-back questionnaire to members of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe) to assess attitudes toward wolves and Wisconsin wolf policy. We compared their responses to a sample of non…
Hunters as Stewards of Wolves in Wisconsin and the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Regulated hunting may help conserve wildlife. Advocates argue hunters will champion conservation and generate revenue for management, regulation will promote sustained, stable wildlife populations, and conflicts with game species will diminish. Applying this notion to predators such as the wolf presents difficulties because of widespread human intolerance for the species. We assessed potential hunter stewardship of wolves by measuring attitudes o…
Beyond Recovery
Wildlife protectionists, livestock producers, and black bear hunters influenced wolf policy in Wisconsin, USA, over the past 29 years. Wolf policy aligned closely with protectionist values until 2003, when litigations over lethal control and wolf reclassification created a rift. Since 2003, livestock producers and bear hunters have had more influence over wolf policy. Throughout, state managers steered steadily toward regaining management authori…
Co-Managing Human–Wildlife Conflicts
A Simple, Cost-Effective Method for Involving Stakeholders in Spatial Assessments of Threats to Biodiversity
Human–nature interactions shape biodiversity and natural resources. Planning conservation and engaging stakeholders in dialogues about conservation require an understanding of indirect threats arising from socioeconomic and political conditions, plus participatory methods to build consensus for action. We present a method for spatial assessment of threats, which involves stakeholders in decision-making and planning for conservation. We developed …
Why People Eat Bushmeat
People and Wildlife
Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations, contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds l…
Paying for Tolerance
As wolf ( Canis lupus ) populations recover in Wisconsin (U.S.A.), their depredations on livestock, pets, and hunting dogs have increased. We used a mail‐back survey to assess the tolerance of 535 rural citizens of wolves and their preferences regarding the management of “problem” wolves. Specifically, we tested whether people who had lost domestic animals to wolves or other predators were less tolerant of wolves than neighboring residents who ha…
Human‐Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide
Carnivore conservation depends on the sociopolitical landscape as much as the biological landscape. Changing political attitudes and views of nature have shifted the goals of carnivore management from those based on fear and narrow economic interests to those based on a better understanding of ecosystem function and adaptive management. In parallel, aesthetic and scientific arguments against lethal control techniques are encouraging the developme…
Infanticide by Males and its Implications
Male primates, carnivores and rodents sometimes kill infants that they did not sire. Infanticide by males is a relatively common phenomenon in these groups, but tends to be rare in any given species. Is this behavior pathological or accidental, or does it reflect a conditional reproductive strategy for males in certain circumstances? In this book, case studies and reviews confirm the adaptive nature of infanticide in males in primates, and help t…
Within-group vigilance in red colobus and redtail monkeys
In theory, animals are expected to relax vigilance in the safety of large groups. Four controlled studies of primates have failed to detect relaxed vigilance as group size increases. The counter-intuitive behavior of primates might arise if another component of vigilance increases with group size, masking any decrease in outward, anti-predator vigilance. Surveillance of associates is a major component of primate vigilance and might be expected to…
Has Predation Shaped the Social Systems of Arboreal Primates
Risk and opportunity for humans coexisting with large carnivores
Temporal patterns of crop‐raiding by primates
Primates dominate lists of pests that damage crops around African parks and reserves. Beyond creating management problems, crop foraging is integral to the ecology of primates inhabiting forest—agriculture ecotones. Twenty‐three months of data from four villages around Kibale National Park, Uganda, revealed that redtail monkeys Cercopithecus ascanius , olive baboons Papio cynocephalus and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes selected different crops or pl…
Case study of a chimpanzee recovered from poachers and temporarily released with wild conspecifics
Primate natal coats
Pelage coloration of infants was compiled for 138 species of primates. Three functional hypotheses--alloparental, infant defense, and paternity cloak--for primate natal coats are tested. Neonatal pelage contrasted with adult pelage in over half of the species examined. Subtle or inconspicuous contrast was more common than flamboyant contrast. Natal coats began to change at 5.7 weeks and disappeared by 18.0 weeks postpartum on average. The first b…
Risk and opportunity for humans coexisting with large carnivores
Has Predation Shaped the Social Systems of Arboreal Primates
Why People Eat Bushmeat
A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores
The growing complexity and global nature of wildlife poaching threaten the survival of many species worldwide and are outpacing conservation efforts. Here, we reviewed proximal and distal factors, both social and ecological, driving illegal killing or poaching of large carnivores at sites where it can potentially occur. Through this review, we developed a conceptual social-ecological system framework that ties together many of the factors influen…
Tolerant Attitudes Reflect an Intent to Steward
The terms tolerance and intolerance are widely used by scholars and managers alike because they are widely understood in contexts beyond attitudes or behavior toward wildlife. Tolerance is a frame of mind; thus, intolerance should also be considered one. Redefining intolerance as the opposite of stewardship would conflate intention and behavior; thus, I argue that tolerance–neutrality–intolerance should be a continuum of attitudes, whereas stewar…
Hunters as Stewards of Wolves in Wisconsin and the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Regulated hunting may help conserve wildlife. Advocates argue hunters will champion conservation and generate revenue for management, regulation will promote sustained, stable wildlife populations, and conflicts with game species will diminish. Applying this notion to predators such as the wolf presents difficulties because of widespread human intolerance for the species. We assessed potential hunter stewardship of wolves by measuring attitudes o…
Case study of a chimpanzee recovered from poachers and temporarily released with wild conspecifics
Primate natal coats
Pelage coloration of infants was compiled for 138 species of primates. Three functional hypotheses--alloparental, infant defense, and paternity cloak--for primate natal coats are tested. Neonatal pelage contrasted with adult pelage in over half of the species examined. Subtle or inconspicuous contrast was more common than flamboyant contrast. Natal coats began to change at 5.7 weeks and disappeared by 18.0 weeks postpartum on average. The first b…
Temporal patterns of crop‐raiding by primates
Primates dominate lists of pests that damage crops around African parks and reserves. Beyond creating management problems, crop foraging is integral to the ecology of primates inhabiting forest—agriculture ecotones. Twenty‐three months of data from four villages around Kibale National Park, Uganda, revealed that redtail monkeys Cercopithecus ascanius , olive baboons Papio cynocephalus and chimpanzees Pan troglodytes selected different crops or pl…
Within-group vigilance in red colobus and redtail monkeys
In theory, animals are expected to relax vigilance in the safety of large groups. Four controlled studies of primates have failed to detect relaxed vigilance as group size increases. The counter-intuitive behavior of primates might arise if another component of vigilance increases with group size, masking any decrease in outward, anti-predator vigilance. Surveillance of associates is a major component of primate vigilance and might be expected to…
Has Predation Shaped the Social Systems of Arboreal Primates
Risk and opportunity for humans coexisting with large carnivores
Infanticide by Males and its Implications
Male primates, carnivores and rodents sometimes kill infants that they did not sire. Infanticide by males is a relatively common phenomenon in these groups, but tends to be rare in any given species. Is this behavior pathological or accidental, or does it reflect a conditional reproductive strategy for males in certain circumstances? In this book, case studies and reviews confirm the adaptive nature of infanticide in males in primates, and help t…
Paying for Tolerance
As wolf ( Canis lupus ) populations recover in Wisconsin (U.S.A.), their depredations on livestock, pets, and hunting dogs have increased. We used a mail‐back survey to assess the tolerance of 535 rural citizens of wolves and their preferences regarding the management of “problem” wolves. Specifically, we tested whether people who had lost domestic animals to wolves or other predators were less tolerant of wolves than neighboring residents who ha…
Human‐Carnivore Conflict and Perspectives on Carnivore Management Worldwide
Carnivore conservation depends on the sociopolitical landscape as much as the biological landscape. Changing political attitudes and views of nature have shifted the goals of carnivore management from those based on fear and narrow economic interests to those based on a better understanding of ecosystem function and adaptive management. In parallel, aesthetic and scientific arguments against lethal control techniques are encouraging the developme…
People and Wildlife
Human-wildlife conflict is a major issue in conservation. As people encroach into natural habitats, and as conservation efforts restore wildlife to areas where they may have been absent for generations, contact between people and wild animals is growing. Some species, even the beautiful and endangered, can have serious impacts on human lives and livelihoods. Tigers kill people, elephants destroy crops and African wild dogs devastate sheep herds l…
Co-Managing Human–Wildlife Conflicts
A Simple, Cost-Effective Method for Involving Stakeholders in Spatial Assessments of Threats to Biodiversity
Human–nature interactions shape biodiversity and natural resources. Planning conservation and engaging stakeholders in dialogues about conservation require an understanding of indirect threats arising from socioeconomic and political conditions, plus participatory methods to build consensus for action. We present a method for spatial assessment of threats, which involves stakeholders in decision-making and planning for conservation. We developed …
Why People Eat Bushmeat
Beyond Recovery
Wildlife protectionists, livestock producers, and black bear hunters influenced wolf policy in Wisconsin, USA, over the past 29 years. Wolf policy aligned closely with protectionist values until 2003, when litigations over lethal control and wolf reclassification created a rift. Since 2003, livestock producers and bear hunters have had more influence over wolf policy. Throughout, state managers steered steadily toward regaining management authori…
Attitudes to Wolves and Wolf Policy Among Ojibwe Tribal Members and Non-tribal Residents of Wisconsin's Wolf Range
Gray wolf (Canis lupus) policy is dynamic and involves multiple stakeholders. Attitudinal surveys have historically measured stakeholder attitudes, although Native American views have rarely been studied systematically. We sent a mail-back questionnaire to members of the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Ojibwe) to assess attitudes toward wolves and Wisconsin wolf policy. We compared their responses to a sample of non…
Hunters as Stewards of Wolves in Wisconsin and the Northern Rocky Mountains, USA
Regulated hunting may help conserve wildlife. Advocates argue hunters will champion conservation and generate revenue for management, regulation will promote sustained, stable wildlife populations, and conflicts with game species will diminish. Applying this notion to predators such as the wolf presents difficulties because of widespread human intolerance for the species. We assessed potential hunter stewardship of wolves by measuring attitudes o…
Tolerant Attitudes Reflect an Intent to Steward
The terms tolerance and intolerance are widely used by scholars and managers alike because they are widely understood in contexts beyond attitudes or behavior toward wildlife. Tolerance is a frame of mind; thus, intolerance should also be considered one. Redefining intolerance as the opposite of stewardship would conflate intention and behavior; thus, I argue that tolerance–neutrality–intolerance should be a continuum of attitudes, whereas stewar…
A conceptual framework for understanding illegal killing of large carnivores
The growing complexity and global nature of wildlife poaching threaten the survival of many species worldwide and are outpacing conservation efforts. Here, we reviewed proximal and distal factors, both social and ecological, driving illegal killing or poaching of large carnivores at sites where it can potentially occur. Through this review, we developed a conceptual social-ecological system framework that ties together many of the factors influen…
Biology (13 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (11 works) · Ecology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Primate Behavior and Ecology (6 works) · Wildlife (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Predation (5 works) · Primate (5 works)