Selective piglet feeders improve age-related bait specificity and uptake rate in overabundant Eurasian wild boar populations

Wildlife Research

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 203-212

  Ballesteros, Cristina ^a   Carrasco García, Ricardo ^a   Vicente, Joaquín ^a   Carrasco, Jesús ^a   Lasagna, Angelo ^a,b   De La Fuente, Joś ^a,c   Gorátzar, Christian ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ATTRACTANT; BAIT; CEREAL; DISEASE CONTROL; JUVENILE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PIG; VACCINATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 65249140418     PISSN: 10353712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/WR08127     Document Type: Article

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