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Wildlife conservation at a garden level: the effect of robotic lawn mowers on European hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus)
- Abstract:
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We tested the effects of 18 models of robotic lawn mowers in collision with dead European hedgehogs and quantified the results into six damage categories. All models were tested on four weight classes of hedgehogs, each placed in three different positions. None of the robotic lawn mowers tested was able to detect the presence of dependent juvenile hedgehogs (<200 g) and all models had to touch the hedgehogs to detect them. Some models caused extensive damage to the hedgehog cadavers, but t...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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British Hedgehog Preservation Society
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- MDPI Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Animals Journal website
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 5
- Article number:
- 1191
- Place of publication:
- Switzerland
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-04-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2076-2615
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1173566
- Local pid:
- pubs:1173566
- Deposit date:
- 2021-05-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Rasmussen et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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