| Title: | Deer damage: A review of repellents to reduce impacts worldwide |
| Author(s): | Guerisoli MLM; Pereira JA; |
| Address: | "Grupo de Genetica y Ecologia en Conservacion y Biodiversidad (GECoBi), Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia' (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Electronic address: mariadelasmercedesguerisoli@gmail.com. Grupo de Genetica y Ecologia en Conservacion y Biodiversidad (GECoBi), Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 'Bernardino Rivadavia' (MACN-CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110977 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1095-8630 (Electronic) 0301-4797 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Mammal herbivores, and specially deer, can cause severe damages to agriculture, producing economic losses. Repellents based on odor, visual and/or taste stimuli have been tested to minimize these damages, but their global effectiveness has not been quantified. A systematic literature review on the use of repellents to reduce damage by deer was carried out, and an evaluation of the effectiveness of different repellents and application methods was performed. A Beta regression was employed considering the percentage of vegetation unbrowsed at the end of the essay as the response variable. A total of 246 essays testing ten different repellents and 236 essays testing four different application methods were extracted from 58 articles. Odor-based repellents, such as those including 'meat and blood' and 'urine, hair and feces of predators', were found to be the most effective to reduce damage. Non-lethal methods, such as repellents, could be valuable tools to manage this human-wildlife conflict" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Animals, Wild *Deer Feces Herbivory Humans Odorants Antler rubbing Browsing Deer damage Fear induced repellents Mitigation;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineGuerisoli, Maria de Las Mercedes Pereira, Javier A eng Systematic Review England 2020/08/12 J Environ Manage. 2020 Oct 1; 271:110977. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110977. Epub 2020 Jun 26" |
