Hog heaven? Challenges of managing introduced wild pigs in natural areas

DA Keiter, JC Beasley - Natural Areas Journal, 2017 - BioOne
The geographic distribution and size of wild pig (Sus scrofa) populations has rapidly
expanded in recent years globally, resulting in increased impacts on natural and …

Transmission of antibiotic resistance at the wildlife-livestock interface

S Lee, P Fan, T Liu, A Yang, RK Boughton… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Antibiotic-resistant microorganisms (ARMs) are widespread in natural environments,
animals (wildlife and livestock), and humans, which has reduced our capacity to control life …

A call and suggested criteria for standardizing economic estimates of wild pig damage

NM Didero, KH Ernst, SC McKee, SA Shwiff - Crop Protection, 2023 - Elsevier
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are a prolific and destructive non-native, invasive species in the
United States. Formal attempts to quantify the economic costs of wild pig presence in the US …

Assessing the utility of metabarcoding for diet analyses of the omnivorous wild pig (Sus scrofa)

MS Robeson, K Khanipov, G Golovko… - Ecology and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are an invasive species descended from both domestic swine and
Eurasian wild boar that was introduced to North America during the early 1500s. Wild pigs …

Invasion ecology of wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in Florida, USA: the role of humans in the expansion and colonization of an invasive wild ungulate

FA Hernández, BM Parker, CL Pylant, TJ Smyser… - Biological …, 2018 - Springer
Wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are the most widely distributed invasive wild ungulate in the United
States, yet the factors that influence wild pig dispersal and colonization at the regional level …

[HTML][HTML] Intense human pressure is widespread across terrestrial vertebrate ranges

CJ O'Bryan, JR Allan, M Holden, C Sanderson… - Global Ecology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The United Nation's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 calls for reducing
species extinctions, as it is increasingly clear that human activities threaten to drive species …

Mixed ancestry from wild and domestic lineages contributes to the rapid expansion of invasive feral swine

TJ Smyser, MA Tabak, C Slootmaker… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive alien species are a significant threat to both economic and ecological systems.
Identifying the processes that give rise to invasive populations is essential for implementing …

DNA metabarcoding reveals consumption of diverse community of amphibians by invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the southeastern United States

VR Canright, AJ Piaggio, SM Chinn, RM Giglio… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Invasive wild pigs (Sus scrofa) are one of the most widespread, destructive vertebrate
species globally. Their success can largely be attributed to their generalist diets, which are …

Endangered animals and plants are positively or neutrally related to wild boar (Sus scrofa) soil disturbance in urban grasslands

V Cabon, M Bùi, H Kühne, B Seitz, I Kowarik… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Wild boar is increasingly establishing populations in the outskirts of European cities, with the
largest German urban population occurring in Berlin. Related soil disturbance in grasslands …

Effects of wild pig disturbance on forest vegetation and soils

SM Gray, GJ Roloff, DB Kramer, DR Etter… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT In North America, wild pigs (Sus scrofa; feral pigs, feral swine, wild boars) are a
widespread exotic species capable of creating large‐scale biotic and abiotic landscape …