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Title Conservation Behaviour: Effectiveness of animal conditioning interventions in mitigating Human-Wildlife conflicts (meta-analysis)
Group Behavioural Ecology
Project type thesis
Credits 24-36
Supervisor(s) Lysanne Snijders
Examiner(s) Lysanne Snijders
Contact info lysanne.snijders@wur.nl
Begin date 2024/09/01
End date 2025/12/31
Description We did a comprehensive search for publications potentially containing evidence on the effectiveness of animal conditioning interventions in reducing Human-wildlife conflicts. The next steps are to extract metadata and to conduct analyses on potentially key mediating factors of effectiveness in particular taxa (canids, bears or birds).

Snijders et al 2019. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-019-0153-7.
Shivik et al 2003. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2003.00062.x.
Berger-Tal et al 2019. https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/ary130.
Domjan 2005. The Essentials of Conditioning and Learning.
Used skills Data extraction, data curation, critical appraisal, meta-analysis
Requirements Interest and ability to work systematically and motivated to learn about and execute a meta-analysis.