Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions
Wild boar population (Sus scrofa) has been growing rapidly in most countries of the world over the past decades. The invasive species has high reproduction rates and well-developed adaptive responses, which allows it to successfully expand the boundaries of its habitat, create significant economic l...
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| author | Nataliia Voloshyna Oleksii Voloshyn Dmytro Sushko Denys Dubinskyi Yuri Karpenko |
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| description | Wild boar population (Sus scrofa) has been growing rapidly in most countries of the world over the past decades. The invasive species has high reproduction rates and well-developed adaptive responses, which allows it to successfully expand the boundaries of its habitat, create significant economic losses to agriculture and horticulture, urban ecosystems, and threatens the loss of biological diversity and the spread of zoonotic infections. The purpose of the paper was to analyse the factors that contribute to the expansion of the Sus scrofa species in the world, to determine the ecological mechanisms of population regulation against the background of rapid anthropogenic transformation of the habitat and global climatic anomalies; to assess changes in the dynamics of population size in hunting farms of Ukraine for the period from 2010 to 2020 in the Chernihivska oblast, in particular. Conventional methods of retrospective analysis, synthesis, environmental, general biological, and epizootic research were used. The paper analyses the world experience and identifies the main factors of low effectiveness of strategies for controlling the rapidly growing population of wild boar in agroecosystems, mixed forest and urban ecosystems. Due to the unique features of forming a life strategy, the Sus scrofa species demonstrate successful development, expansion of the range of available food resources, effective use of daily diversification of ecological niches in the conditions of transformed ecosystems, etc. It is established that the reason for the inefficiency of ecological mechanisms of pressure on the population of the species in the "predator-prey" system is the absence of large predators in the forest ecosystems of Chernihivska oblast. At the same time, the absence of deterrent mechanisms in the predator-prey system ensured the manifestation of next-level mechanisms, namely, the appearance of foci of African swine fever along the forest cycle in the natural biocenoses of the region. Response – the response of populations was manifested by a rapid short-term decrease in the population of Sus scrofa, as a temporary deterrent effect with a subsequent recovery trend. The results obtained can be used in the development of practical recommendations for biological monitoring, environmental control, and the development of effective forest management measures to prevent biological safety associated with the uncontrolled distribution of Sus scrofa and African swine fever based on universal ecological mechanisms of population regulation |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ee32dee9c958473aabc6e27238dc1ce32023-07-05T14:38:15ZengZhytomyr National Agroecological UniversityНаукові горизонти2663-21442022-06-01252657510.48077/scihor.25(2).2022.65-75Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditionsNataliia Voloshyna0Oleksii Voloshyn1Dmytro Sushko2Denys Dubinskyi3Yuri Karpenko4National Pedagogical Dragomanov University 02000, 9 Pyrohova Str., Kyiv, UkraineTaras Shevchenko National University “Chernihiv Colehium” 14013, 53 Hetman Polubotko Str., Chernihiv, UkraineNational Pedagogical Dragomanov University 02000, 9 Pyrohova Str., Kyiv, UkraineNational Pedagogical Dragomanov University 02000, 9 Pyrohova Str., Kyiv, UkraineTaras Shevchenko National University “Chernihiv Colehium” 14013, 53 Hetman Polubotko Str., Chernihiv, UkraineWild boar population (Sus scrofa) has been growing rapidly in most countries of the world over the past decades. The invasive species has high reproduction rates and well-developed adaptive responses, which allows it to successfully expand the boundaries of its habitat, create significant economic losses to agriculture and horticulture, urban ecosystems, and threatens the loss of biological diversity and the spread of zoonotic infections. The purpose of the paper was to analyse the factors that contribute to the expansion of the Sus scrofa species in the world, to determine the ecological mechanisms of population regulation against the background of rapid anthropogenic transformation of the habitat and global climatic anomalies; to assess changes in the dynamics of population size in hunting farms of Ukraine for the period from 2010 to 2020 in the Chernihivska oblast, in particular. Conventional methods of retrospective analysis, synthesis, environmental, general biological, and epizootic research were used. The paper analyses the world experience and identifies the main factors of low effectiveness of strategies for controlling the rapidly growing population of wild boar in agroecosystems, mixed forest and urban ecosystems. Due to the unique features of forming a life strategy, the Sus scrofa species demonstrate successful development, expansion of the range of available food resources, effective use of daily diversification of ecological niches in the conditions of transformed ecosystems, etc. It is established that the reason for the inefficiency of ecological mechanisms of pressure on the population of the species in the "predator-prey" system is the absence of large predators in the forest ecosystems of Chernihivska oblast. At the same time, the absence of deterrent mechanisms in the predator-prey system ensured the manifestation of next-level mechanisms, namely, the appearance of foci of African swine fever along the forest cycle in the natural biocenoses of the region. Response – the response of populations was manifested by a rapid short-term decrease in the population of Sus scrofa, as a temporary deterrent effect with a subsequent recovery trend. The results obtained can be used in the development of practical recommendations for biological monitoring, environmental control, and the development of effective forest management measures to prevent biological safety associated with the uncontrolled distribution of Sus scrofa and African swine fever based on universal ecological mechanisms of population regulationhttps://sciencehorizon.com.ua/en/journals/tom-25-2-2022/yekologichni-mekhanizmi-regulyatsiyi-chiselnosti-populyatsiyi-sus-scrofa-v-suchasnikh-umovakhinvasive specieshabitatafrican swine feverepizooticsbiotic regulatory mechanisms |
| spellingShingle | Nataliia Voloshyna Oleksii Voloshyn Dmytro Sushko Denys Dubinskyi Yuri Karpenko Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions Наукові горизонти invasive species habitat african swine fever epizootics biotic regulatory mechanisms |
| title | Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| title_full | Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| title_fullStr | Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| title_short | Ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| title_sort | ecological mechanisms of sus scrofa population regulation in modern conditions |
| topic | invasive species habitat african swine fever epizootics biotic regulatory mechanisms |
| url | https://sciencehorizon.com.ua/en/journals/tom-25-2-2022/yekologichni-mekhanizmi-regulyatsiyi-chiselnosti-populyatsiyi-sus-scrofa-v-suchasnikh-umovakh |
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