Fruits and roots: Wild boar foods during the cold season in the southwestern Pyrenees
5 páginas, 2 tablas. In order to understand wild boar's diet during the cold season and its alternatives to mast in a southern European mountain range, 234 wild boar stomachs we collected in autumn and winter during three consecutive hunting seasons. The study was undertaken in several valleys...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/35619 2024-02-11T10:09:20+01:00 Fruits and roots: Wild boar foods during the cold season in the southwestern Pyrenees Herrero Cortés, Juan Irizar, Iñaki Laskurain, Nere Amaia García Serrano, Alicia García-González, Ricardo 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/35619 https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356652 en eng Taylor & Francis http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356652 Italian Journal of Zoology 72(1): 49-52 (2005) 1125-0003 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/35619 doi:10.1080/11250000509356652 none Wild boar Feeding habits Stomach content Southwestern Pyrenees Autumn and winter artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2005 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000509356652 2024-01-16T09:31:44Z 5 páginas, 2 tablas. In order to understand wild boar's diet during the cold season and its alternatives to mast in a southern European mountain range, 234 wild boar stomachs we collected in autumn and winter during three consecutive hunting seasons. The study was undertaken in several valleys of the southwestern Pyrenees, a third of which was forest. Results indicated that diet mainly consisted of plant matter from the aerial parts of different forest plants. The most important items in terms of abundance and frequency of appearance were beechnuts Fagus sylvatica, acorns from white oak Quercus humilis and holm oak Q. ilex, and bracken Pteridium aquilinum roots. Those items represented 70.7% of the total volume. The alternative to hard mast was roots. The amount of animal matter in the diet was small but consumed frequently and consistently during the three hunting periods. Due to the abundance of forest fruits, alternative natural foods and the mosaic of forest, there was little crop damage in the area. This research was funded by two projects of the Regional Government of Aragon, one on brown bear Ursus arctos conservation and the other on wild boar management. It was part of the first author's PhD Thesis (Herrero 2003). Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Italian Journal of Zoology 72 1 49 52 |
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5 páginas, 2 tablas. In order to understand wild boar's diet during the cold season and its alternatives to mast in a southern European mountain range, 234 wild boar stomachs we collected in autumn and winter during three consecutive hunting seasons. The study was undertaken in several valleys of the southwestern Pyrenees, a third of which was forest. Results indicated that diet mainly consisted of plant matter from the aerial parts of different forest plants. The most important items in terms of abundance and frequency of appearance were beechnuts Fagus sylvatica, acorns from white oak Quercus humilis and holm oak Q. ilex, and bracken Pteridium aquilinum roots. Those items represented 70.7% of the total volume. The alternative to hard mast was roots. The amount of animal matter in the diet was small but consumed frequently and consistently during the three hunting periods. Due to the abundance of forest fruits, alternative natural foods and the mosaic of forest, there was little crop damage in the area. This research was funded by two projects of the Regional Government of Aragon, one on brown bear Ursus arctos conservation and the other on wild boar management. It was part of the first author's PhD Thesis (Herrero 2003). Peer reviewed |
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Herrero Cortés, Juan Irizar, Iñaki Laskurain, Nere Amaia García Serrano, Alicia García-González, Ricardo |
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Herrero Cortés, Juan Irizar, Iñaki Laskurain, Nere Amaia García Serrano, Alicia García-González, Ricardo |
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Fruits and roots: Wild boar foods during the cold season in the southwestern Pyrenees |
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