Disentangling Natural From Hunting Mortality in an Intensively Hunted Wild Boar Population

摘要: Abstract We assessed age-specific natural mortality (i.e., excluding hunting mortality) and of 1,175 male 1,076 female wild boar (Sus scrofa) from Châteauvillain-Arc en Barrois (eastern France), using a 22-year dataset (1982–2004) mark–recapture–recovery methods. Overall yearly was >50% for all sex age-classes. Low survival mostly due to high mortality; had >40% chance being harvested annually, this risk as 70% adult males. Natural rates were similar males females (approx. 0.15). These comparable typical ungulates but ungulates. Wild did not vary across Despite mortality, we detect evidence compensatory mortality. Whereas constant over time, varied independent fluctuations in mast availability. Female pa...