Botanical examination of wild boar habitats (preliminary report)

Abstract

Botanical evaluations were carried out in three different wild boar parks in Hungary. The survey was made in Csongrás, Fejér and Tolna counties. According to the results remarkable proportion of species tolerant for disturbance and degradation was found in the vegetation of all the examined habitats both on turf and shrub level. It confirm only that the wild boar parks are established on worthless and featureless lands of secondary associations which are not important from the aspect of nature conservation, but the deteriorative effect of the wild boars was not proved. The density of wild boars in the parks is not more than 1 animal/hectare, so their damage on vegetation is not significant.