scholarly journals Common Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus L.1758) Management in Serbia

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Vukan M. Lavadinović ◽  
Dejan Beuković ◽  
Zoran Popović

Summary The common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus L. 1758) is an allochtonous game species of great importance to the hunting sector in Serbia. Growing concerns over a decline in its population raise issues about the proper management and hunting of common pheasants. As this research tends to identify the importance of common pheasants to Serbian hunters, the present study is based on a mixed research model combining traditional analyses with social studies on Serbian hunters. The data utilized have been collected from the annual management plans of 272 hunting grounds across Serbia and the interviews with 377 hunters. The results obtained suggest that there are significant differences between the analyzed variables in the management plans examined, which indicates that the pheasant hunting management in Serbia is not harmonized. However, the social studies conducted identify the common pheasant as the most hunted and popular game species with Serbian hunters. Accordingly, the common pheasant hunting and management in Serbia has to be improved in order to meet the hunters’ expectations and ensure their satisfaction.

2009 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Chloupek ◽  
Eva Voslářová ◽  
Pavel Suchý ◽  
Iveta Bedáňová ◽  
Vladimíra Pištěková ◽  
...  

The effects of varying periods of pre-sampling handling (1.5 min, 3 min, 4.5 min, 6 min) on selected biochemical indices were monitored in a group of 8–9-month-old common pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) kept at a pheasantry in Jinačovice, Czech Republic. The duration of pheasant handling (capture, restraint, and blood sampling) was positively correlated with plasma corticosterone (p < 0.001) and lactate (p < 0.05) levels. Negative correlations were found between the handling duration and glucose concentration (p < 0.01), and aspartate aminotransferase level (p < 0.05) in the blood plasma. A significant increase in corticosterone plasma concentrations and a decrease in glucose plasma concentrations were already found in blood samples taken after 3 min of capture in comparison to blood samples of pheasants taken within 1.5 min.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simin Liu ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
Edouard Jelen ◽  
Mansour Alibadian ◽  
Cheng-Te Yao ◽  
...  

ABSTRACTAimHistorical factors such as Pleistocene climate cycles and associated environmental changes have influenced the phylogeographic structure and demographic dynamics of many species. Resulting patterns not only depend on species’ life-history but also vary regionally. Consequently, different populations of species with large ranges over different biomes might have experienced divergent drivers of diversification and show different population histories. Such a representative species is the common pheasant Phasianus colchicus, an ecological generalist with a wide distribution in the Palearctic and at the edge of the Oriental region. We aimed at identifying distinct phylogeographic lineages of the common pheasant and investigating their evolutionary trajectories.Study locationAsiaMethodsWe used coalescent approaches to describe the phylogeographic structure and to reconstruct the spatio-temporal diversification and demographic history of the common pheasant based on a comprehensive geographic sampling of 265 individuals genotyped at seven nuclear and two mitochondrial loci.ResultsThe common pheasant diversified during the late Pleistocene into eight distinct evolutionary lineages which only partly correspond to traditional morphological groups. It originated at the edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau and spread from there to East and Central Asia. Only the widely distributed genetically uniform lowland lineage of East Asia showed a recent range and population expansion, starting during last glacial. More phylogeographic structure was found elsewhere with lineages showing no signs of recent range expansions. One lineage of subtropical south-central China this is the result of long-term isolation in a climatically stable and topographically complex region. In others from arid Central Asia and China, demographic and range expansions were impeded by repeated population fragmentation during dry glacial and recent aridification. Given such a phylogeographic structure and demographic scenarios among lineages, we proposed split the range-wide common pheasant into three species.Main conclusionsSpatio-temporal phylogeographic frameworks of widespread species complexes such as the common pheasant provide valuable opportunities to identify regionally divergent drivers of diversification.


2017 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongwei Qu ◽  
Jiangyong Qu ◽  
Yunhui Wang ◽  
Chenghua Guo ◽  
Boyang Shi ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (No. 1) ◽  
pp. 29-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Hauptmanova ◽  
M. Maly ◽  
I. Literak

The haematological parameters of the common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus), the dynamics of changes in blood count parameters with regard to the season of the year and reproduction status, and the effects of sex and body condition on the haematological parameters of blood were studied. In total, 574 blood samples were collected. The samples were collected from pheasants from the age of 6 months, prior to the laying period, and after the laying period. Packed cell volume and haemoglobin concentration significantly increased in males during the period of growth and decreased during the period of reproductive activity. Significantly higher values were detected in males compared to females in erythrocyte count, packed cell volume, haemoglobin concentration and in mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration. A statistically significant positive relationship was detected between weight and the values of most of the parameters related to red blood cells.


2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 675-683
Author(s):  
D. Zapletal ◽  
E. Straková ◽  
P. Suchý

Abstract. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the directed positive selection of the common pheasant for a higher seven-week body weight (BW) relative to their gender on the realised response to the selection and adult (40-week) BW after four generations of selection. The founder population was not selected before for any traits. For the selection in generation one of the experiment, a total of 2 080 pheasant chicks were used to establish a selection line (SL). In the same year, a total of 400 pheasant chicks were randomly selected as a control line (CL). Within the SL, chicks from individual hatches were selected by sex, always based on live BW at the age of 49 days. The targeted selection was carried out for four generations. In all generations it was found a higher seven-week BW in males compared to females (P<0.01). In generations two, three and four, the BW of the SL in both sexes was always higher in comparison with the CL (P<0.01). The genetic improvement of the seven-week BW was 15.0, 6.4 and 10.1 g in generation two, three and four, respectively. In the last generation, the increase in the seven-week BW of the SL compared to the CL was higher in females than in males (8.00 and 6.66 %, respectively). The realised heritability for the seven-week BW was 0.19. The selection at the age of seven weeks also caused an absolute increase in BW of adult pheasants at the age of 40-weeks.


Author(s):  
Liubov V. Klepikova ◽  
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Sergej N. Klimov ◽  

The article deals with the container model of society (CMS) which has been used for a long time in disciplines dealing with the study of society, the processes of its development and change. The term CMS was introduced into the scientific circulation of foreign social sciences and humanities about twenty years ago, but it is not yet widely known in the Russian social studies. The article traces the history of the formation of the KMO and its introduction into the research apparatus of foreign social and humanitarian works, provides an overview of the monograph by U. Beck, as well as the article by N. Glik Schiller and A. Wimmer. The CMS is based on the view of society as a set of closed social groups that are “containers”. Hitherto CMS has been used as the methodological tool, which allowed reconsidering the old approaches and the concepts formed in the social and migrant studies. However, the fact that not only scientists, but also ordinary members of the community, were inclined to systematize social reality like the puzzle of the homogeneous “containers”, was out of the re­searchers’ attention. The main peculiarity of the modern situation around CMS consists in the circumstance that CMS is reproducing itself permanently in the common discourses, in the various confrontations and conflicts. The arti­cle’s authors try to show not just the methodological, but also the theoretical pos­sibilities of CMS for the social studies in Russia. In view of the principles, which the individuals use to identify themselves and others, the socio-humanitarian studies are capable to get a fundamentally new approach toward the analysis of the social field of the human existence as well as to diverge from the method­ological dogmatism in the field of the social sciences.


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