The wild boar (Sus scrofa) is highly adaptable. This proves that it benefits in today's cultural and intensely exploited landscape. In the summer, it resides in fields where there is enough food, calm and causes damage to crop. During the winter period it moves to forests where conditions are less favourable. It is extensively hunted, disturbed by forest cuting, tourism and other human activities. In the winter time, it has only limited food sources in the woods, and therefore searches and visits the feeding sites. The escalating problems regarding the wild boar were an initiative to study his behavior. The behaviour was studied by analyzing the distribution of faecal pellet groups in the Bradlo forest complex with an area of 11.59 km2. The complex is situated in the northeast of the Czech Republic and is surrounded by agricultural landscapes. The distribution of faecal pellet groups was evaluated on 617 research areas (each covering an area of 100 m2), which were evenly distributed throughout the forest complex. In the first year (2017) was counted 20.4 individuals per km2. In the second year (2018) after intensive hunting during the year, 15.1 individuals were counted per km2. The research has examined the relationship between the amount of dropping and the factors such as geomorphological characteristics, distance from the feeding sites, water sources, forest edges, roads, hiking trails and intravilans. Impact of forest environment and Jurisdiction to the hunting area were investigated. It has been confirmed that most wild boar are staying in young dense forest stands, regardless of jurisdiction to hunting area, distance from roads, hiking trails, intravilans and areas with intensive forest cuting. With increasing distance from the edge of the forest, the number of droppings increased, and, conversely, with increasing distance from the feeding sites the number of droppings was smaller. The influence of geomorphological properties and distance from water courses has not been proved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:428406 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Hrubý, Petr |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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