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Open AccessDensity-dependent dinner: Wild boar overuse agricultural land at high densities
The Swedish wild boar (Sus scrofa) population has increased rapidly over the last decades, resulting in conflicts with human activities. Particularly, the increase has been challenging for agriculture as wild boa...
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Open AccessWinter activity of Ixodes ricinus in Sweden
In Europe, Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) is the most widespread and abundant tick species, acting as a vector for several microorganisms of medical and veterinary importance. In Northern and Central Europe, th...
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Open AccessPotential drivers of human tick-borne encephalitis in the Örebro region of Sweden, 2010–2021
Incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) has increased during the last years in Scandinavia, but the underlying mechanism is not understood. TBE human case data reported between 2010 and 2021 were aggregated...
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Open AccessParasitic strongyle nemabiome communities in wild ruminants in Sweden
Wildlife hosts may serve as reservoirs for strongyles, which can be transmitted to domestic livestock. Therefore, studies evaluating nemabiome compositions in wildlife ruminants are of great use in assessing t...
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Open AccessMeasurement of catestatin and vasostatin in wild boar Sus scrofa captured in a corral trap
Our aim was to analyse the chromogranin A-derived peptides vasostatin and catestatin in serum from wild boar (Sus scrofa) captured in a corral trap. Acute capture-related stress quickly leads to a release of adre...
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Open AccessNutritional niche separation between native roe deer and the nonnative fallow deer—a test of interspecific competition
On an evolutionary time scale, competition for food drives species formation by genetic adaptations to the environment and subsequent niche separation. On a short-term scale, animals use different strategies t...
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Open AccessValidating a common tick survey method: cloth-dragging and line transects
Cloth-dragging is the most widely-used method for collecting and counting ticks, but there are few studies of its reliability. By using cloth-dragging, we applied a replicated line transects survey method, in ...
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Open AccessWild boar behaviour during live-trap capture in a corral-style trap: implications for animal welfare
Wildlife traps are used in many countries without evaluation of their effect on animal welfare. Trap-capture of wild animals should minimise negative effects on animal welfare, irrespective of whether the anim...
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Open AccessSpatial patterns of pathogen prevalence in questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Scandinavia, 2016
Tick-borne pathogens cause diseases in animals and humans, and tick-borne disease incidence is increasing in many parts of the world. There is a need to assess the distribution of tick-borne pathogens and iden...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Spatial data of Ixodes ricinus instar abundance and nymph pathogen prevalence, Scandinavia, 2016–2017
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Open AccessSpatial data of Ixodes ricinus instar abundance and nymph pathogen prevalence, Scandinavia, 2016–2017
Ticks carry pathogens that can cause disease in both animals and humans, and there is a need to monitor the distribution and abundance of ticks and the pathogens they carry to pinpoint potential high risk area...
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Open AccessPredicting the spatial abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks in southern Scandinavia using environmental and climatic data
Recently, focus on tick-borne diseases has increased as ticks and their pathogens have become widespread and represent a health problem in Europe. Understanding the epidemiology of tick-borne infections requir...
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Open AccessA large-scale screening for the taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus, and the meadow tick, Dermacentor reticulatus, in southern Scandinavia, 2016
The taiga tick, Ixodes persulcatus, has previously been limited to eastern Europe and northern Asia, but recently its range has expanded to Finland and northern Sweden. The species is of medical importance, as it...
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Open AccessEfficient application of a browsing repellent: Can associational effects within and between plants be exploited?
Browsing can reduce forest productivity, particularly when the apical shoots of trees are damaged. Repellents are used widely to reduce browsing, but application is costly. To improve efficiency, it may be pos...
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Open AccessWho’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Variation in the stress response among personalities and populations in a large wild herbivore
Faced with rapid environmental changes, individuals may express different magnitude and plasticity in their response to a given stressor. However, little is known about the causes of variation in phenotypic pl...
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Truly sedentary? The multi-range tactic as a response to resource heterogeneity and unpredictability in a large herbivore
Much research on large herbivore movement has focused on the annual scale to distinguish between resident and migratory tactics, commonly assuming that individuals are sedentary at the within-season scale. How...
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Open AccessCortisol response of wild ungulates to trauma situations: hunting is not necessarily the worst stressor
Animal welfare concerns are becoming a central issue in wildlife management and conservation. Thus, we investigated stress response of wild ungulates to potentially traumatic situations (shooting injuries, veh...
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Open AccessThe use of box-traps for wild roe deer: behaviour, injuries and recaptures
Tracking devices are commonly used to locate and monitor wild animals for studying spatial ecology and survival rates. There is growing interest in capture effects, partially to minimize the impact on the stud...
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Open AccessChallenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations
Wildlife management systems face growing challenges to cope with increasingly complex interactions between wildlife populations, the environment and human activities. In this position statement, we address the...
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Open AccessQuantifying capture stress in free ranging European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus)
To understand and reduce the concomitant effects of trap** and handling procedures in wildlife species, it is essential to measure their physiological impact. Here, we examined individual variation in stress...
