The importance of natural food in wild boar (Sus scrofa) diet during autumn and winter

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v67.i3-4.a3.2018" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v67.i3-4.a3.2018</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25225/fozo.v67.i3-4.a3.2018" target="_blank" >10.25225/fozo.v67.i3-4.a3.2018</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The importance of natural food in wild boar (Sus scrofa) diet during autumn and winter

Original language description

The diet of wild boar (Sus scrofa), a native and problematic species of European ecosystems, highly reflects the management of the species as well as the level of its damaging effect. This study focuses on the importance of natural dietary components in the diet of wild boar over the autumn to winter season (i.e. the main hunting season) in four predominantly oak forests in the Czech Republic. We also studied the effect of supplementary feed, especially maize, on feeding preferences. The oak acorn was always preferred, regardless of other natural or supplementary feeds available. Both acorns and maize are highly nutritional, energy rich foods and boars always consumed at least one of these energy-rich foods. If acorns were not available, supplementary feed, and especially maize, was actively searched for, whereupon they often substituted for acorns nutritionally. The wild boar is the dominant competitor for acorns and can potentially exploit the whole forest crop, depending on the size of the acorn crop, the wild boar population density and the density of other ungulates in the forest. When the acorn biomass was exhausted, supplementary feed (predominantly maize) was always preferred.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

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

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Folia Zoologica

ISSN

0139-7893

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3-4

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

165-172

UT code for WoS article

000456077400005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85077775587