The European distribution of Sus scrofa. Model outputs from the project described within the poster - Where are all the boars? An attempt to gain a continental perspective.

Wild boar is a host of a number of arthropod-vectored diseases and its numbers are on the rise in mainland Europe. The first of the three models provide a European map presenting the probability of presence of Sus scrofa, which can be used to describe the likely geographical distribution of the species. The second and third models provide indices to help describe the likely abundance across the continent. The two indices include “the proportion of suitable habitat where presence is estimated” and a simple classification of boar abundance across Europe using quantiles of existing abundance data and proxies.