La Haye, Maurice J. J. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4374-9313
van Kats, Ruud J. M.
Müskens, Gerard J. D. M.
Hallmann, Caspar A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-0522
Jongejans, Eelke http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1148-7419
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministerie van Landbouw, Natuur en Voedselkwaliteit (BO-02-013)
Article History
Received: 28 January 2020
Accepted: 29 August 2020
First Online: 16 September 2020
Complaince with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests nor competing interests.
: Trapping and surgery were done under permission of the Dutch Fauna & Flora Act (license numbers FF/75A/2005/012 and FF/75A/2009/031) and according to the Dutch Animal Welfare Act (protocol number ALT05.03 and follow-ups). Surgery and implantation procedures of transmitters were almost similar as described in Capber (CitationRef removed). Within more than 500 trapping and over 800 operation events, only two fatal accidents as a direct result of trapping and implanting a transmitter were reported. One wild hamster died during surgery because of heart failure, while the second wild hamster was found dead in the field with an open suture.
: Raw data are available in data repository DANS: ExternalRef removed.