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ArticleScience advances2025

Human-wildlife conflict is amplified during periods of drought.

Kendall L Calhoun, Justine A Smith, Morgan W Tingley, Alex Heeren, Amy Van Scoyoc, Mitchell W Serota, Justin S Brashares, Brett J Furnas

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Kendall L CalhounDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5095-8004
Justine A SmithDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8753-4061
Morgan W TingleyDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1477-2218
Alex HeerenWildlife Health Laboratory, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670, USA.
Amy Van ScoyocDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94707, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8638-935X
Mitchell W SerotaDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94707, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8885-5577
Justin S BrasharesDepartment of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94707, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3973-5632
Brett J FurnasDepartment of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6377-4148

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Climate change-induced alterations to human-wildlife interactions are recognized to pose a fundamental challenge for global conservation initiatives. However, the extent to which specific climatic disturbances influence dynamics of human-wildlife conflict across different taxonomic groups remains poorly understood. Here, we leverage an extensive dataset of community-derived human-wildlife conflict incidents to examine the influence of drought, represented by the variation in summed precipitation over the prior 12 months, on conflict reporting. We show that prolonged decreases in precipitation are associated with increased overall conflict occurrences across taxa and are significantly associated with increased conflict with carnivore species in particular. A future with increasingly severe and frequent droughts could lead to resource scarcity that not only causes conflict between humans but also between humans and the natural world around them.

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Animals, WildDroughtsAnimalsClimate ChangeConservation of Natural ResourcesHumans

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PMID41223262
PMCPMC12609059

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