Behavioural Responses of Ungulates to Sound Systems : can simulated risk influence behaviour?

• Main Author: Berndt, Carolin Veronika
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies 2021
• Subjects: ungulates; landscape of fear; behavioural response; predation risk; playback experiment; ABR; management strategies; Watchers; Northern Sweden
• Online Access: https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/17241/

Increasing ungulate densities all over Europe are intensifying the ongoing human-wildlife conflict, embodied by mainly economical losses through damages in forestry and agriculture. Given the current circumstances, farmers and forest owners prefer a decrease in ungulate numbers through direct popula...