2020
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.007
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Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

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 'rec… Show more

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“…Indeed, a targeted focus on and greater consideration of the traits of individuals that vary in trap wariness is recommended to improve wildlife and pest management outcomes. 52 We found no evidence in support of the social transfer of information hypothesis. There was no spike in visitation by new individuals on night two, nor were these subsequent new individuals more likely to enter a device that had previously been entered by a conspecific (as would have been expected if conspecifics of night one visitors had learned about the location and/or safety of the device via social transfer of information).…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 66%
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“…Indeed, a targeted focus on and greater consideration of the traits of individuals that vary in trap wariness is recommended to improve wildlife and pest management outcomes. 52 We found no evidence in support of the social transfer of information hypothesis. There was no spike in visitation by new individuals on night two, nor were these subsequent new individuals more likely to enter a device that had previously been entered by a conspecific (as would have been expected if conspecifics of night one visitors had learned about the location and/or safety of the device via social transfer of information).…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 66%
“…Each of our proposed prebaiting mechanisms relies upon animals returning to the device when it is armed. Animals need to be motivated to return to a device and this is often achieved by offering a food reward 52 likely to be taken by the first visitor leaving subsequent visitors unrewarded. However, if the potential benefits of gaining food upon return outweigh the investigation costs, 50 then individuals are likely to revisit baited devices.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, the concept of harnessing fear of predators to enhance restoration success remains intriguing and is worth further examination. Indeed, fear of predators as a management tool has garnered increasing attention in terrestrial conservation applications [ 63 , 64 ], and we suggest that such approaches may be similarly fruitful in transition habitats such as salt marshes. Insights from terrestrial applications suggest that the combination of multiple predator cues (e.g., auditory, olfactory, and visual) may increase the effectiveness of predator manipulations, providing a valuable starting point for further applications to marsh restoration.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Animal movement (Read and Moseby 2001), demographics (Kay et al 2000;Rodda et al 2007), state-dependent factors (Laves and Loeb 2006;Bisi et al 2011) and individual personality (Biro and Dingemanse 2009) can influence encounter and capture rates. Live-capture techniques rely on animal decision-making for success (Garvey et al 2021); however, if techniques are perceived to present danger or risk, capture success may vary. For example, entering a trap can be associated with a degree of risk by animals (Stokes 2013;K.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%