The boar war: five hot factors unleashing boar expansion and related emergency

D Fulgione, M Buglione - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The recent and ever-growing problem of boar (Sus scrofa forms including wild boar, hybrid
and feral pig) expansion is a very complex issue in wildlife management. The damages …

Nutritional dimensions of invasive success

JZ Shik, A Dussutour - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Despite mounting calls for predictive ecological approaches rooted in physiological
performance currencies, the field of invasive species biology has lagged behind. For …

Behavioral state resource selection in invasive wild pigs in the Southeastern United States

LM Clontz, KM Pepin, KC VerCauteren, JC Beasley - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Elucidating correlations between wild pig (Sus scrofa) behavior and landscape attributes
can aid in the advancement of management strategies for controlling populations. Using …

Giant pandas are macronutritional carnivores

Y Nie, F Wei, W Zhou, Y Hu, AM Senior, Q Wu, L Yan… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Giant pandas are unusual in belonging to a primarily carnivorous clade and yet being
extremely specialized herbivores that feed almost exclusively on highly fibrous bamboo [1] …

Multidimensional nutritional ecology and urban birds

SCP Coogan, D Raubenheimer, SP Zantis… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
There is growing interest in the question of how urbanization affects the ecology of birds,
across timescales from relatively short‐term physiological responses to long‐term …

Diet Composition and Nutritional Niche Breadth Variability in Juvenile White Sharks (Carcharodon carcharias)

R Grainger, VM Peddemors… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Establishing diets and dietary generalism in marine top predators is critical for
understanding their ecological roles and responses to environmental fluctuations. Nutrition …

Influence of biotic and abiotic factors on home range size and shape of invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa)

LM Clontz, KM Pepin, KC VerCauteren… - Pest Management …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
BACKGROUND Determining factors influencing animal movements at a temporal scale that
is similar to that at which management actions are conducted (eg weekly) is crucial for …

Functional macronutritional generalism in a large omnivore, the brown bear

SCP Coogan, D Raubenheimer… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We combine a recently developed framework for describing dietary generalism with
compositional data analysis to examine patterns of omnivory in a large widely distributed …

Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behavior in wood bison

LJ Hecker, MA Edwards, SE Nielsen - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Diet is one of the most common traits used to organize species of animals into niches. For
ruminant herbivores, the breadth and uniqueness of their dietary niche are placed on a …

The nutritional nexus: linking niche, habitat variability and prey composition in a generalist marine predator

GE Machovsky‐Capuska, MGR Miller… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Our understanding of the niche concept will remain limited while the quantity and range of
different food types eaten remain a dominant proxy for niche breadth, as this does not …