Preliminary Findings of Factors Influencing Wild Boar Distribution in Temperate Forest During the Winter

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preliminary Findings of Factors Influencing Wild Boar Distribution in Temperate Forest During the Winter

Original language description

Wild boar is a highly adaptable occasional omnivore that perfectly exploits the conditions of contemporary cultural landscape in Central Europe. In the growing season it lives in agricultural crops, where it has enough rest, shelter and food. In the autumn, after the maize harvest, it moves into the forests, where its living conditions are more unfavourable. There wild boar is disturbed by intense hunting, forest cutting, recreation and other human activities, also food resources are limited (depending on mast trees and mast years presence and quantity). The question then remains, to what extent the wild boar reacts to these environmental factors. This study focused on the evaluation of the in the study forest complex in the north-eastern part of the Czech Republic, using faecal pellet group counting. Distribution was evaluated at 617 sample plots (each with an area of 100 m2), at the end of two winters (2017 and 2018). The number of faecal pellet group was related to the type of forest environment, geomorphological characteristics, hunting grounds, distances from the nearest feeding site, forest roads, hiking trails, forest edge, intravilan and streams. This study confirmed that wild boar faecal pellet group density was inversely proportional to the distance from the food source and the forest edge. The highest density of faecal pellet groups was in young dense forest stands, regardless of hiking trails, forest roads and areas with intensive forest cutting. The impact of geomorphological characteristics or the distance from the water streams was not demonstrated. Human interference does not affect the distribution of wild boar in the forest and does not have a significant impact on wildlife management.

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

40102 - Forestry

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

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

Article name in the collection

12th International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids: Conference Proceeding

ISBN

978-80-7509-651-7

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

59-66

Publisher name

Mendelova univerzita v Brně

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Lázně Bělohrad

Event date

Sep 4, 2018

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000484606500009