LEADER 04442nam 22006615 450 001 9911020422503321 005 20250807130555.0 010 $a9783031973635$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031973628 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-97363-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32256203 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32256203 035 $a(CKB)40138069900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-97363-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9940138069900041 100 $a20250807d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCattle, Their Predators and Geomatics Research /$fby Michael O'Neal Campbell 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (595 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Campbell, Michael O'Neal Cattle, Their Predators and Geomatics Research Cham : Springer,c2025 9783031973628 327 $aWild Cattle Species and Their Ecology -- Wild Cattle and their Carnivores -- Cattle Ancestry, Domestication and Carnivores -- Cattle Ancestry and Ancient Carnivores -- Predators of Cattle in Europe -- Predators of Cattle in Africa -- Predators of Cattle in North America -- Predators of Cattle in South America -- Conclusions. 330 $aCattle are currently the most important domesticated mammals, with populations numbering in the hundreds of millions and occupying large tracts of land, while the conservation of large mammalian carnivores is becoming a dominant discourse in modern geopolitics, also claiming large portions of the Earth's land surface. Computer-based surveying and communication systems, including geomatics, Big Data and Big Tech, are becoming an essential part of human communication and environmental assessments and are critical to large-scale assessments of land conflicts. A current, critical, potent but neglected issue concerns the measurement of the interfaces of large carnivore and cattle ecologies, in a cross continental format. This book offers a novel approach to the interfaces of the sciences of conservation biology, animal ecology, agricultural development and geomatics, which are increasingly interconnected in modern, global development scenarios. For animal ecology and conservation biology, it is about the management systems that have developed from ecological and human parameters. For agricultural development, topics concern ancestral development, physiological characteristics, ecological requirements, and predation opportunities and conflicts of cattle breeds. For geomatics, the topics concern the image-based and survey-based technologies that enable more critical environmental assessments. The book takes a novel approach by examining the ancestry of cattle, including the aurochs and current wild buffalos, gaur, banteng, yaks, bison, the process of domestication into taurine and indicine cattle, the semi-domestication of yaks and water buffalo, the ecologies of ancestral and modern large carnivores, including bears, big cats and canids, and how the requirements of these large charismatic mammals conflict with the requirements of cattle and agricultural development, in Asia, Europe, Africa, North America, and South America. This integrative approach contributes to the interests of academic researchers, students, practitioners and policy makers, and general readers. 606 $aConservation biology 606 $aEcology 606 $aAnimal culture 606 $aAnimal migration 606 $aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aGenomics 606 $aConservation Biology 606 $aAnimal Science 606 $aAnimal Migration 606 $aAnimal Ethics 606 $aGenomics 615 0$aConservation biology. 615 0$aEcology. 615 0$aAnimal culture. 615 0$aAnimal migration. 615 0$aAnimal welfare$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aGenomics. 615 14$aConservation Biology. 615 24$aAnimal Science. 615 24$aAnimal Migration. 615 24$aAnimal Ethics. 615 24$aGenomics. 676 $a333.9516 700 $aCampbell$b Michael O'Neal$01460593 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9911020422503321 996 $aCattle, Their Predators and Geomatics Research$94420261 997 $aUNINA