Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia

@article{Mamo2021PatternOC,
  title={Pattern of crop raiding by wild large mammals and the resultant impacts vary with distances from forests in Southwest Ethiopia},
  author={Alemayehu Mamo and Debissa Lemessa and Obsu Hirko Diriba and Debela Hunde},
  journal={Ecology and Evolution},
  year={2021},
  volume={11},
  pages={3203 - 3209},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:233182468}
}
The results imply that strategies need to be sought in order to minimize the socio‐ecological impacts of crop raiders mainly in locations close to forest edges.
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