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Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. Volume 45.1 (2022) Pages: 33-42

Small mammal sampling incidents related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) in natural peri–urban areas

Torre, I., Cahill, S., Grajera, J., Raspall, A., Vilella, M.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2022.45.0033

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Abstract

The wild boar (Sus scrofa) has recently shown continuous population increases in many countries, leading to a rise in conflicts with human activities, including habituation to people and urban areas. Wild boar can disrupt the sampling of small mammals by reducing the number of potential captures. In this study we analysed whether sampling incidents recorded within a small mammal monitoring programme (SEMICE, www.semice.org) might be related to the density of wild boar in a network of protected parks. Our results suggested a peri–urban effect that was independent of wild boar densities in the protected parks; the number of damaged traps increased (rendering them inoperable for captures) and potentially resulted in underestimates of small mammals due to fewer functioning traps in the study area. We hypothesised that this high rate of damage to traps in a small and localised area in a peri–urban park could be related to wild boar associating human presence with greater opportunities to obtain food items of anthropogenic origin.

Keywords

Live traps, Trap damage, Synurbization, Population, Underestimation, Collserola Park

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Torre, I., Cahill, S., Grajera, J., Raspall, A., Vilella, M., 2022. Small mammal sampling incidents related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) in natural peri–urban areas. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 45: 33-42, DOI: https://doi.org/10.32800/abc.2022.45.0033

Reception date:

25/05/2021

Acceptation date:

08/11/2021

Publication date:

11/11/2021

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