Habitat selection of wild boar （Sus scrofa） in mountain area on Guizhou Plateau, China based on camera-trapping dataset

In recent years, wild boar（Sus scrofa） has been regarded as a typical representative of human-animal conflicts resulted from the population increasing sharply and its consequences of ecological impacts in the mountainous forest ecosystem of southern China. However, few studies can be found on wild boar′s habitat selection in southern mountain area so far. In this study, a long-term camera-trapping dataset（from July 2015 to January 2020） obtained from several representative places in Guizhou Plateau were analyzed, and a total of 201 wild boar used plots and 121 random plots were obtained. 1) Vanderploeg and Scavia Selection Index analysis showed that the wild boar preferred the habitat where the slope ≤ 20°, tree canopy coverage ＞0.8 and herb coverage 0.2-0.4, while avoided the habitat where the slope ＞25°, herb cover＜0.1 and the closest distance from road ≤100 m. 2) The Resource Selection Function model of wild boar′s habitat selection can be calculated as Logit（P） = 3.226-altitude×0.002-slope×0.161 + canopy