Assessing short-term behavioural impacts of capture on wild boar: implications for wildlife monitoring and management

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60460709%3A41320%2F25%3A106024" target="_blank" >RIV/60460709:41320/25:106024 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=22433" target="_blank" >https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?id=22433</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.20315/evmc.2025.133" target="_blank" >10.20315/evmc.2025.133</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Assessing short-term behavioural impacts of capture on wild boar: implications for wildlife monitoring and management

Original language description

Monitoring and GPS tracking of animals are crucial to understand their ecology and thus informing wildlife management practices. Capture, immobilisation and manipulation of free-ranging animals to equip them with GPS collars might negatively affect their behaviour for several days after capture and thus bias the data. The magnitude and duration of these detrimental effects depend on the studied species, sex, season, and type of used trap. This study aimed to assess the short-term behavioural impacts of capture and GPS collaring on wild boar (Sus scrofa; n = 108) movement and activity, as well as the influence of sex, age, trap type, and season. After trapping, the movement and activity of wild boar were significantly lower, but the effects were, in general, small. The latency to recover, however, depended on the studied variable. While the activity score and daily used area (90% minimum convex polygon) were gradually restored after 7 days, the daily distance from the trap was restored after 12 days. We further found that younger (juvenile and subadult) individuals and wild boar trapped in wooden corral traps had larger daily used areas and that males were moving further away from traps. These findings highlight the importance of accounting for short-term post-capture behavioural changes when interpreting GPS tracking data and provide insights for designing more effective and minimally invasive wildlife monitoring protocols.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10613 - Zoology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

14th European Vertebrate Management Conference : Ankaran, Slovenia, 12-16 May 2025

ISBN

978-961-94349-5-6

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

1

Pages from-to

155-155

Publisher name

Faculty of Environmental Protection, Slovenian Forestry Institute, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies, Julius Kühn Institute.

Place of publication

Slovenia

Event location

Ankaran, Slovenia

Event date

Jan 1, 2025

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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