TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hagemann, Justus
A1  - Conejero, Carles
A1  - Stillfried, Milena
A1  - Mentaberre, Gregorio
A1  - Castillo-Contreras, Raquel
A1  - Fickel, Jörns
A1  - Lopez-Olvera, Jorge Ramón
T1  - Genetic population structure defines wild boar as an urban exploiter species in Barcelona, Spain
JF  - The science of the total environment : an international journal for scientific research into the environment and its relationship with man
N2  - Urban wildlife ecology is gaining relevance as metropolitan areas grow throughout the world, reducing natural habitats and creating new ecological niches. 
However, knowledge is still scarce about the colonisation processes of such urban niches, the establishment of new communities, populations and/or species, and the related changes in behaviour and life histories of urban wildlife. 
Wild boar (Sus scrofa) has successfully colonised urban niches throughout Europe. 
The aim of this study is to unveil the processes driving the establishment and maintenance of an urban wild boar population by analysing its genetic structure. 
A set of 19 microsatellite loci was used to test whether urban wild boars in Barcelona, Spain, are an isolated population or if gene flow prevents genetic differentiation between rural and urban wild boars. 
This knowledge will contribute to the understanding of the effects of synurbisation and the associated management measures on the genetic change of large mammals in urban ecosystems. Despite the unidirectional gene flow from rural to urban areas, the urban wild boars in Barcelona form an island population genotypically differentiated from the surrounding rural ones. 
The comparison with previous genetic studies of urban wild boar populations suggests that forest patches act as suitable islands for wild boar genetic differentiation. 
Previous results and the genetic structure of the urban wild boar population in Barcelona classify wild boar as an urban exploiter species. 
These wild boar peri-urban island populations are responsible for conflict with humans and thus should be managed by reducing the attractiveness of urban areas. 
The management of peri-urban wild boar populations should aim at reducing migration into urban areas and preventing phenotypic changes (either genetic or plastic) causing habituation of wild boars to humans and urban environments.
KW  - gene flow
KW  - island population
KW  - population genetics
KW  - sus scrofa
KW  - synurbisation
KW  - urban ecology
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155126
SN  - 0048-9697
SN  - 1879-1026
VL  - 833
PB  - Elsevier Science
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stillfried, Milena
A1  - Fickel, Jörns
A1  - Börner, Konstantin
A1  - Wittstatt, Ulrich
A1  - Heddergott, Mike
A1  - Ortmann, Sylvia
A1  - Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
A1  - Frantz, Alain C.
T1  - Do cities represent sources, sinks or isolated islands for urban wild boar population structure?
JF  - Journal of applied ecology : an official journal of the British Ecological Society
KW  - baps
KW  - Berlin
KW  - diyabc
KW  - human-wildlife conflict
KW  - hunting
KW  - microsatellites
KW  - movement barrier
KW  - source-sink dynamics
KW  - structure
KW  - urban ecology
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12756
SN  - 0021-8901
SN  - 1365-2664
VL  - 54
IS  - 1
SP  - 272
EP  - 281
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -