study the linkage between livestock predation by big cats, wild prey biomass and above-mentioned confounders, (b) identify and estimate the minimum thresholds of prey biomass that move predation rates up, and (c) discuss these thresholds as a potentially useful metric for assessing and predicting human–felid conflicts.
could calculate them (Appendix A). Original data are provided in Appendix B. Each publication contained one livestock predation/no predation case (one study area for one big cat species) or more cases (2–5 study areas for a species, e.g. different protected areas in a puma study by Donadio et al. (2010) inwhich each protected areawas considered a separate case). We took the cases as independent if they described different big cat species, areas and/or study periods in the
same area. Otherwise, we considered the cases as dependent and
lumped them into a single case.