Too many wild boar? Modelling fertility control and culling to reduce wild boar numbers in isolated populations.

摘要: Wild boar and feral swine number range are increasing worldwide in parallel with their impact on biodiversity human activities. The ecological economic of this species include spread diseases, vehicle collisions, damage to crops, amenities infrastructures reduction plant animal abundance richness. As traditional methods such as culling have not contained the growth wild pigs, alternative fertility control now advocated. We used empirical data two isolated populations model compare effects different regimes population trends. built a Bayesian applied it explore implications for various management options combining and/or contraception. results showed that, whilst its own was sufficient achieve target number, adding more effective than alone. In particular, using contraceptives 40% complement 60% animals, halved time our compared only. conclude assuming effort found be cost-effective terms reduction, these should simultaneously if rapid decrease is required closed population.