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TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 35, Issue 11, Pages 990-1000Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.007
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- Strategic Science Investment from the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment's Science and Innovation Group
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [747120]
- National Science Foundation [IOS 1456724]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [747120] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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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.
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