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Abundance of badgers (Meles meles) in England and Wales.
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- Badger Ecology, Bovine Tuberculosis, and Population Management: Lessons from the Island of Ireland.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2024Review
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- Breaking down population density into different components to better understand its spatial variation.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
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- Quantification of the Animal Tuberculosis Multi-Host Community Offers Insights for Control.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Quantifying the relative predation pressure on bumblebee nests by the European badger (Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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- Assessing effects from four years of industry-led badger culling in England on the incidence of bovine tuberculosis in cattle, 2013-2017.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Push and pull factors driving movement in a social mammal: context dependent behavioral plasticity at the landscape scale.Current zoology · 2019Article
- Reduced occupancy of hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) in rural England and Wales: The influence of habitat and an asymmetric intra-guild predator.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Bait uptake by wild badgers and its implications for oral vaccination against tuberculosis.PloS one · 2018Article
- Bovine Tuberculosis in Britain and Ireland - A Perfect Storm? the Confluence of Potential Ecological and Epidemiological Impediments to Controlling a Chronic Infectious Disease.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2018Article
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Abstract
The European badger (Meles meles) is of considerable interest in the UK as it is both a protected species and the main wildlife reservoir for bovine tuberculosis infection in cattle. While there have been three national badger surveys in the 1980s, 1990s and 2011-13, using the number of badger main setts as a proxy for the abundance of badger social groups, none has combined contemporary data on social group size at landscape and national scales. We estimated social group size by genotyping hair samples collected at 120 main setts across England and Wales and employing a capture-mark-recapture method based on genotypes. The estimated mean social group size in England and Wales was 6.74 (±0.63) badgers. There was considerable variation in badger social group size among Land Class Groups (LCGs), with a low of 2.67 in LCG3 and a high of 7.92 in LCG4. Combining these results with the recent Badger Sett Survey of England and Wales, we estimate there are approximately 485,000 badgers (95% confidence intervals 391,000-581,000) in England and Wales. Although direct comparison with previous estimates is not ideal owing to methodological differences, our results are consistent with a marked increase in the badger population of England and Wales since the 1980s.
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