Management data of feral swine removals from Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, Missouri, USA from 2015-2019

Feral swine (Sus scrofa) are invasive in North America and are actively managed to reduce human-wildlife conflict and damage to agriculture, natural resources, and personal property. This data package contains the data collected during feral swine removal management activities at the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge in Missouri. Removal data for feral swine include the date, location, method of removal (i.e., aerial gunning, trapping, and ground shooting), number of animals removed, effort employed, and a site designation number. The effort is dependent on the method of removal: number of hours in the helicopter for aerial gunning, number of trap nights for trapping, and number of ground shooting events for ground shooting. The location information has been modified to remove specific locations to avoid violating privacy issues while retaining the relative spatial relationships of the points. The refuge was split into three sites for analysis purposes based on the geography of the refuge.The data were collected as part Wildlife Services management activities.For more information about this study and these data, see Davis et al. (2022). Data were originally published on 02/15/2022. On 04/25/2023 metadata updates included citation for newly published article.野猪（Sus scrofa）在北美属于入侵物种，当前正通过主动管理措施缓解人兽冲突，并减少其对农业、自然资源与私有财产造成的破坏。本数据包收录了密苏里州明戈国家野生动物保护区内野猪移除管理活动期间采集的数据。野猪移除相关数据涵盖移除日期、点位信息、移除方式（包括航空射击、诱捕与地面射击）、移除个体数量、作业投入量及点位编号。作业投入量的统计标准随移除方式而异：航空射击作业以直升机飞行时长为统计单位，诱捕作业以诱笼夜数为统计单位，地面射击作业则以射击行动次数为统计单位。为避免隐私侵权问题，点位信息已做脱敏处理，但保留了各点位间的相对空间关系。本保护区基于自身地理特征被划分为三个分析点位。本数据集采集自野生动物服务局（Wildlife Services）开展的管理活动。如需了解本研究与数据集的更多细节，请参阅Davis等人（2022）的相关文献。本数据集最初于2022年2月15日发布。2023年4月25日的元数据更新补充了新发表论文的引用信息。