Age-structured models to predict eradication efficiency of feral pigs on Kangaroo Island

Peter Hamnett
Global Ecology, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
November 2021 / updated March 2023

Accompanies paper:

Hamnett, PW, F Saltré, B Page, M Tarran, M Korcz, K Fielder, L Andrews, CJA Bradshaw. 2023. Stochastic population models to identify optimal and cost-effective harvest strategies for feral pig eradication. bioRχiv doi:10.1101/2023.03.08.531659

(in review elsewhere)

Source files

matrixOperators.R

Further reading

Non-age structured feral pig-culling model for Kangaroo Island (Github repository)
Eradication of pigs on Kangaroo Island: updated predictions to inform the probability of eradication (report)
Feral pigs in South Australia (webpage)
Feral Pig Eradication Program on Kangaroo Island (webpage)