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Jan 9, 2020 · Climate change provides more abundant and more frequent oak and beech masts —a coveted wild boar diet—and is therefore discussed as a relevant driver of growing wild boar populations [9,10,11]. The increased wild boar populations raise concerns in several respects. Wild boar functions as a vector of diseases that can affect livestock.
- Franz Johann, Markus Handschuh, Peter Linderoth, Carsten F. Dormann, Janosch Arnold
- 2020
Apr 29, 2020 · The tremendous growth of wild boar populations over the past decades could already be linked to improvements in food availability and winter weather conditions caused by climate change 8 – 13. Apart from a few regions, negative effects like density dependence or increasingly hotter summers are unlikely to noticeably limit this growth in the near future 13 .
- Sebastian G. Vetter, Zsófia Puskas, Claudia Bieber, Thomas Ruf
- 10.1038/s41598-020-64216-9
- 2020
- Sci Rep. 2020; 10: 7298.
Jul 20, 2021 · The climate impact of wild pigs greater than a million cars, study finds. By uprooting carbon trapped in soil, wild pigs are releasing around 4.9 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide annually ...
Apr 29, 2020 · Abstract. Global climate change affects many species and contributes to the exceptional population growth of wild boar populations and thus to increasing human-wildlife conflicts. To investigate the impact of climate change on wild boar populations we extended existing models on population dynamics. We included for the first time different ...
- Sebastian G. Vetter, Zsófia Puskas, Claudia Bieber, Thomas Ruf
- 2020
Jul 12, 2022 · The effects of natural factors (climate harshness, habitat variation, predators) and anthropogenic factors (climate warming, habitat change, releases, supplementary feeding, hunting) on wild boar distribution were assessed using estimates (scores) provided by experts from the target regions. The wild boar in Europe is distributed up to 64°N.
Jan 6, 2024 · Hypotheses specify that A) the wild boar population affects crop damage, B) the food preference of wild boar affects crop damage regardless of changes in population size, C) climate change or human disturbance leads to changes in wild boar habitat quality (e.g., decrease in the availability of food resources), which influences crop damage, and D) the overlap of wild boar activity and human ...
The wild boar population in Europe has been constantly growing since 1/3. the 1980s. This is more and more becoming a problem for agriculture ... Wild boars are gaining ground—climate change ...
