Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

Patrick M.  Garvey; Peter B.  Banks; Justin P.  Suraci; Thomas W. Bodey; Alistair S.  Glen; Chris J.  Jones; Clare  McArthur; Grant L.  Norbury; Catherine J.  Price; James C. Russell; Andrew  Sih

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.007

Leveraging Motivations, Personality, and Sensory Cues for Vertebrate Pest Management

Patrick M. Garvey^* (Corresponding Author), Peter B. Banks, Justin P. Suraci, Thomas W. Bodey, Alistair S. Glen, Chris J. Jones, Clare McArthur, Grant L. Norbury, Catherine J. Price, James C. Russell, Andrew Sih

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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 ‘recalcitrants’ (individuals avoiding standard control measures). Effective management leverages animal behaviours that relate primarily to four core motivations: feeding, fleeing, fighting, and fornication. Management success could be greatly increased by identifying and exploiting individual variation in motivations. We provide explicit suggestions for cue-based tools to manipulate these four motivators, thereby improving pest management outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	990-1000
Number of pages	11
Journal	Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Volume	35
Issue number	11
Early online date	6 Sept 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.007
Publication status	Published - Nov 2020

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Acknowledgments:
We wish to thank Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research staff, particularly Peter Millard and Bruce Warburton, for facilitating and supporting this research. Thanks to Jenna Bytheway for infographic design. This research was supported by Strategic Science Investment funding from the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Science and Innovation Group, awarded to Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. T.W.B. was supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant number 747120, and A.S. was supported by National Science Foundation grant IOS 1456724.

Keywords

animal behaviour
individual variation
sensory cues
pest control
behaviour-based management
Wildlife conservation
wildlife conservation
LURES
EFFICACY
BEHAVIOR
RATS
STRATEGIES
HABITUATION
ECOLOGY
PREDATION RISK
LIVESTOCK

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