Ecology, Conservation and Management of Wild Pigs and Peccaries

Mario Melletti is a member of the African Buffalo Initiative Group, part of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, has studied forest buffalo for fifteen years in Central Africa and has authored three books and 45 scientific publications. Erik Meijaard is Chair of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Wild Pig Specialist Group. Erik is author of six books and 185 scientific papers, and a frequent writer in popular media. He has been influential in conservation policies and public opinion about them.

Foreword; Part I. Evolution, Taxonomy and Domestication: 1. Evolutionary relationships and taxonomy of Suidae and Tayassuidae; 2. Postcranial skeletal morphology in living and fossil African Suidae; 3. Diet and ecology of extant and fossil wild pigs; 4. A history of pig domestication: new ways of exploring a complex process; 5. Space, time and pig; Part II. Species Accounts: 6. Sulawesi babirusa; 7. Moluccan babirusa; 8. Togian babirusa; 9. Common warthog; 10. Desert warthog; 11. Forest hog; 12. Bushpig; 13. Red river hog; 14. Visayan warty pig; 15. Philippine warty pig; 16. Mindoro warty pig; 17. Palawan bearded pig; 18. Bearded pig; 19. Sulawesi warty pig; 20. Javan/Bawean warty pig; 21. Eurasian wild boar; 22. Pygmy hog; 23. Chacoan peccary; 24. Collared peccary; 25. White-lipped peccary; Part III. Conservation and Management: 26. Conservation of wild pigs and peccaries; 27. Modelling pygmy hog habitat to inform habitat management; 28. Introduced wild pigs in North America: history, problems and management; 29. Biological invasion of wild boar and feral pigs Sus scrofa L. (Suidae) in South America: a review and mapping with implications for conservation of peccaries (Tayassuidae); 30. Feral pigs in Australia and New Zealand: range, trend, management and impacts of an invasive species; 31. Wild boar management in Europe: knowledge and practice; 32. Resolving conflict between farmers and wild boar in Europe and in Northern Asia; 33. Human dimensions of wild boar: the need to include people in decision making processes; 34. A genomic perspective on wild boar demography and evolution; 35. Disease transmission at the interface between wild and domestic Suiform species in the Old and New World; 36. Ecological impact of wild boar in natural ecosystems; 37. Ex situ conservation of wild pigs and peccaries: roles, status, management successes and challenges; 38. Antimicrobial resistance in wild boar in Europe: present knowledge and future challenges.