Wild boar mapping using population-density statistics: From polygons to high resolution raster maps.

ABSTRACT: The wild boar is an important crop raider as well as a reservoir and agent of spread of swine diseases. Due to increasing densities and expanding ranges worldwide, the related economic losses in livestock and agricultural sectors are significant and on the rise. Its management and control would strongly benefit from accurate and detailed spatial information on species distribution and abundance, which are often available only for small areas. Data are commonly available at aggregated administrative units with little or no information about the distribution of the species within the unit. In this paper, a four-step geostatistical downscaling approach is presented and used to disaggregate wild boar population density statistics from administrative units of different shape and size (polygons)

SUBMITTER: Pittiglio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5955487 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature