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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management.
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Trends in ecology & evolution [Trends Ecol Evol] 2020 Nov; Vol. 35 (11), pp. 990-1000. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Sep 06. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Managing vertebrate pests is a global conservation challenge given their undesirable socio-ecological impacts. Pest management often focuses on the 'average' individual, neglecting individual-level behavioural variation ('personalities') and differences in life histories. These differences affect pest impacts and modify attraction to, or avoidance of, sensory cues. Strategies targeting the average individual may fail to mitigate damage by 'rogues' (individuals causing disproportionate impact) or to target 'recalcitrants' (individuals avoiding standard control measures). Effective management leverages animal behaviours that relate primarily to four core motivations: feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fornication. Management success could be greatly increased by identifying and exploiting individual variation in motivations. We provide explicit suggestions for cue-based tools to manipulate these four motivators, thereby improving pest management outcomes.<br /> (Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
- Subjects :
- Animals
Personality
Pest Control
Vertebrates
Cues
Motivation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1872-8383
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Trends in ecology & evolution
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 32900547
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.007