Sex effect on habitat selection in response to hunting disturbance: The study of wild boar

European Journal of Wildlife Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-115

  Saïd, Sonia ^a   Tolon, Vincent ^a,b,c   Brandt, Serge ^a   Baubet, Eric ^a  

^a OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Habitat use; Hunting disturbance; Sex effect; Sus scrofa; Wild boar

Indexed keywords

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84856693998     PISSN: 16124642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10344-011-0548-4     Document Type: Article

References (58)

1. Abaigar T, Del Barrio G, Vericad JR (1994) Habitat preference of wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) in a mediterranean environment. Indirect evaluation by signs. Mammalia 58: 201-210.
2. Aebischer NJ, Robertson PA, Kenward RE (1993) Compositional analysis of habitat use from animal radiotracking data. Ecology 74: 1313-1325.
3. Baubet E (1998) Biologie du sanglier en montagne: biodémographie, occupation de l'espace et régime alimentaire. Thèse de doctorat - UCBL I, 281 p.
4. Baubet E, Brandt S, Touzeau C (1998) Effet de la chasse sur les stratégies d'occupation de l'espace des sangliers (Sus scrofa). Analyses préliminaires. Gibier Faune Sauvage 15: 655-658.
5. Baubet E, Vassant J, Brandt S et al. (2008) Connaissances sur la biologie du sanglier: Utilisation de l'espace et régime alimentaire. Colloque Sanglier de Rennes pp. 59-69.
6. Boitani L, Mattei L, Nonis D, Corsi F (1994) Spatial and activity patterns of wild boars in Tuscany, Italy. J Mammal 75: 600-612.
7. Bonenfant C, Loe LE, Mysterud A, Langvatn R, Stenseth NC, Gaillard JM, Klein F (2004) Multiple causes of sexual segregation in European red deer: enlightenments from varying breeding phenology at high and low latitude. Proc R Soc Lond B 271: 883-892.
8. Boulanger V, Baltzinger C, Saïd S, Ballon P, Picard JF, Dupouey JL (2009) Ranking temperate woody species along a gradient of browsing by deer. For Ecol Manage 258: 1397-1406.
9. Calenge C (2006) The package adehabitat for the R software: a tool for the analysis of space and habitat use by animals. Ecol Model 197: 516-519.
10. Calenge C, Dufour AB (2006) Eigenanalysis of selection ratios from animal radio-tracking data. Ecology 87: 2349-2355.
11. Calenge C, Maillard D, Vassant J, Brandt S (2002) Summer and hunting season home ranges of wild boar (Sus scrofa) in two habitats in France. Game Wildl Sci 19: 281-301.
12. Chessel D, Dufour AB, Thioulouse J (2004) The ade4 package - I: one-table methods. R News 4: 5-10.
13. Corti P, Shackleton DM (2002) Relationship between predation-risk factors and sexual segregation in Dall's sheep (Ovis dalli dalli). Can J Zool 80: 2108-2117.
14. Differt J (2001) Phénologie des espèces arborées. Synthèse bibliographique. Analyse des données du Réseau National de Suivi à long terme des Ecosystèmes Forestiers (RENECOFOR- INRA).
15. Edgington ES (1987) Randomization tests. Marcel Dekker, New York, p 341.
16. Hamilton WD (1971) Geometry for the selfish herd. J Theor Biol 31: 295-311.
17. Jarman PJ (1974) The social organisation of antelope in relation to their ecology. Behaviour 48: 215-267.
18. Jedrzejewski W, Schmidt K, Theuerkauf J, Jedrzejewska B, Selva N, Zub K, Szymura L (2002) Kill rates and predation by wolves on ungulate populations in Biolowieza Primeval Forest (Poland). Ecology 83: 1341-1356.
19. Johnson DH (1980) The comparison of usage and availability measurements for evaluating resource preference. Ecology 61: 65-71.
20. Kaminski G, Brandt S, Baubet E, Baudoin C (2005) Life-history patterns in female wild boars (Sus scrofa): mother-daughter postweaning associations. Can J Zool 83: 474-480.
21. Keuling O, Stier N, Roth M (2008) How does hunting influence activity and spatial usage in wild boar Sus scrofa L.? Eur J Wildl Res 54: 729-737.
22. Keuling O, Stier N, Roth M (2009) Commuting, shifting or remaining? Different spatial utilisation patterns of wild boar Sus scrofa L. in forest and field crops during summer. Mamm Biol 74: 145-152.
23. Kilgo JC, Labisky RF, Fritzen DE (1998) Influences of hunting on the behavior of white-tailed deer: implications for conservation of the Florida panther. Conserv Biol 12: 1359-1364.
24. Kufeld RC, Bowden DC, Schrupp DL (1988) Influence of hunting on movements of female mule deer. J Range Manage 41: 70-72.
25. Lande US, Herfindal I, Finne MH, Kastdalen L (2009) Use of hunters in wildlife surveys: does hunter and forest grouse habitat selection coincide? Eur J Wildl Res 56: 107-115.
26. Lima SL, Bednekoff PA (1999) Temporal variation in danger drives antipredator behavior: the predation risk allocation hypothesis. Am Nat 153: 649-659.
27. Maillard D, Fournier P (1995) Effects of shooting with hounds on size of resting range of wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) groups in mediterranean habitat. IBEX J Mt Ecol 3: 102-107.
28. Main MB, Weckerly FW, Bleich VC (1996) Sexual segregation in ungulates: new directions for research. J Mammal 77: 449-461.
29. Manly BFJ, McDonald LL, Thomas DL, MacDonald TL, Erickson WP (2002) Resource selection by animals. Statistical design and analysis for field studies. Kluwer Academic Publisher, London.
30. McIlroy JC, Saillard RJ (1989) The effect of hunting with dogs on the numbers and movements of feral pigs, Sus scrofa, and the subsequent success of poisoning exercises in Namadgi National Park, A. C. T. Aust Wildl Res 16: 353-363.
31. Meriggi A, Sacchi O (2001) Habitat requirements of wild boars in the northern Apennines (N Italy): a multi-level approach. Ital J Zool 68: 47-55.
32. Miquelle DG, Peek JM, van Ballenberghe V (1992) Sexual segregation in Alaskan moose. Wildl Monogr 122: 1-57.
33. Monzon A, Bento P (2004) An analysis of the hunting pressure on wild boar (Sus scrofa) in the Tras-os-Montes region of northern Portugal in Alentejo, Portugal In: C. Fonseca, J. Herrero, A. L. and A. M. V. M. Soares (eds.). Wild boar research 2002. A selection and edited papers from the "4th international Wild boar symposium" Galemys 16(ne): 253-262.
34. Nores C, Llaneza L, Álvarez MÁ (2008) Wild boar Sus scrofa mortality by hunting and wolf Canis lupus predation: an example in northern Spain. Wildl Biol 14: 44-51.
35. Palumbi SR (2001) Humans as the world's greatest evolutionary force. Science 293: 1786-1790.
36. Pellerin M, Saïd S, Gaillard JM (2008) Roe deer Capreolus capreolus home-range sizes estimated from VHF and GPS data. Wildl Biol 14: 101-110.
37. Poteaux C, Baubet E, Kaminski G, Brandt S, Dobson FS, Baudoin C (2009) Socio-genetic structure and mating system of a wild boar population. J Zool 278: 116-125.
38. R Development Core Team (2008) R: a language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna.
39. Roberts G (1996) Why individual vigilance declines as group size increases. Anim Behav 51: 1077-1086.
40. Rosell C, Navàs F, Romero S et al. (2004) Activity patterns and social organization of wild boar (Sus scrofa L.) in a wetland environment: preliminary data on the effects of shooting individuals. in Alentejo, Portugal In: C. Fonseca, J. Herrero, A. L. and A. M. V. M. Soares (eds.). Wild boar research 2002. A selection and edited papers from the "4th international Wild boar symposium" Galemys 16(ne): 157-166.
41. Ruckstuhl KE, Neuhaus P (2002) Sexual segregation in ungulates: a comparative test of three hypotheses. Biol Rev 77: 77-96.
42. Saïd S, Gegout JC (2000) Using the age of the oldest woody specimen for studying post-pasture successions in Corsica (Mediterranean island). Acta Oecol 21: 193-201.
43. Santos P, Mexia de Almeida L, Pretucci-Fonseca F (2004) Habitat selection by wild boar Sus scrofa L. in Alentejo, Portugal In: C. Fonseca, J. Herrero, A. L. and A. M. V. M. Soares (eds.). Wild boar research 2002. A selection and edited papers from the "4th international Wild boar symposium" Galemys 16(ne): 167-184.
44. Scillitani L, Monaco A, Toso S (2010) Do intensive drive hunts affect wild boar (Sus scrofa) spatial behaviour in Italy? Some evidences and management implications. Eur J Wildl Res 56: 307-318.
45. Seaman DE, Powell RA (1996) An evaluation of the accuracy of kernel density estimators for home range analysis. Ecology 77: 2075-2085.
46. Servanty S, Gaillard JM, Allaine D, Brandt S, Baubet E (2007) Litter size and fetal sex ratio adjustment in a highly polytocous species: the wild boar. Behav Ecol 18: 427-432.
47. Servanty S, Gaillard JM, Toïgo C, Brandt S, Baubet E (2009) Pulsed resources and climate induced variation in the reproductive traits of wild boar under hunting pressure. J Anim Ecol 78: 1278-1290.
48. Sodeikat G, Pohlmeyer K (2003) Escape movement of family groups of wild boar Sus scrofa influenced by drive hunts in Lower Saxony, Germany. Wildl Biol 9: 43-49.
49. Sodeikat G, Pohlmeyer K (2007) Impact of drive hunts on daytime resting site areas of wild boar family groups (Sus scrofa L.). Wildl Biol Pract 3: 28-38.
50. Spitz F, Janeau G (1995) Daily selection of habitat in wild boar (Sus scrofa). Zool Soc Lond 237: 423-434.
51. Stankowich T (2008) Ungulate flight responses to human disturbance: a review and meta-analysis. Biol Conserv 141: 2159-2173.
52. Theuerkauf PJ, Rouys S (2008) Habitat selection by ungulates in relation to predation risk by wolves and humans in the Białowieza Forest. For Ecol Manage 256: 1325-1332.
53. Thomas DL, Taylor EJ (1990) Study designs and tests for comparing resource use and availability. J Wildl Manage 54: 322-330.
54. Toïgo C, Servanty S, Gaillard JM, Brandt S, Baubet E (2008) Disentangling natural from hunting mortality in an intensively hunted wild boar population. J Wildl Manage 7: 1532-1539.
55. Tolon V, Dray S, Loison A, Zeileis A, Fischer C, Baubet E (2009) Responding to spatial and temporal variations in predation risk: space use of a game species in a changing landscape of fear. Can J Zool 87: 1129-1137.
56. Westerberg L, Ostman O, Wennergren U (2005) Movement effects on equilibrium distributions of habitat generalists in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecol Model 188: 432-447.
57. White GC, Garrott RA (1990) Analysis of wildlife radio-tracking data. Academic, London.
58. Worton BJ (1989) Kernel methods for estimating the utilization distribution in home-range studies. Ecology 70: 164-168.