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Pigs gone wild. Spatio-temporal management under heterogeneous damage
2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California (2015)
  • Jason Holderieath
  • Chris Slootmaker
  • Aaron Anderson
  • Stephanie Shwiff
Abstract
A species of particular recent interest to policy makers dealing with invasive species is feral swine (Sus scrofa). Feral swine have dramatically expanded their global range over the past 30 years, and conflicts over management have also increased. One case of a contentious management decision is of the trade-off between removal efforts and repairing the damage inflicted. This paper describes a numeric dynamic optimization model that prescribes optimal management strategies given different scenarios. The unique contribution of this model to the literature is that feral swine are modeled as being responsive to both population pressure and removal pressure.
Publication Date
January 1, 2015
Citation Information
Jason Holderieath, Chris Slootmaker, Aaron Anderson and Stephanie Shwiff. "Pigs gone wild. Spatio-temporal management under heterogeneous damage" 2015 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, July 26-28, San Francisco, California (2015)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/j-holderieath/8/