Emergent conservation conflicts in the Galapagos Islands: Human-giant tortoise interactions in the rural area of Santa Cruz Island

• Francisco Benitez-Capistros ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Benitez-Capistros, Giorgia Camperio

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: fjbenitez@uce.edu.ec (FBC); giorgia.camperio@eawag.ch (GC)

  Affiliations Central University of Ecuador, Biomedicine Research Institute (INBIOMED), Quito, Ecuador, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management (APNA), Ecology & Biodiversity, Brussels, Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Organism Biology, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management (SERM), Brussels, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8317-0229

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• Giorgia Camperio ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francisco Benitez-Capistros, Giorgia Camperio

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: fjbenitez@uce.edu.ec (FBC); giorgia.camperio@eawag.ch (GC)

  Affiliations Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Organism Biology, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management (SERM), Brussels, Belgium, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland, Eawag, Department of Surface Waters Research & Management, Dübendorf, Switzerland

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• Jean Hugé ,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Management (APNA), Ecology & Biodiversity, Brussels, Belgium, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Organism Biology, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management (SERM), Brussels, Belgium, University of Hasselt, Centre for Environmental Science, Hasselt, Belgium, University of Ghent, Centre for Sustainable Development, Ghent, Belgium

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• Farid Dahdouh-Guebas ,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Organism Biology, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management (SERM), Brussels, Belgium, ETH Zürich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zürich, Switzerland

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• Nico Koedam

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Organism Biology, Laboratory of Systems Ecology and Resource Management (SERM), Brussels, Belgium

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