Table 5.
Factors associated with people’s personal experience of problems with eight species (n = 1828). Factors are grouped under: Demog. = ‘Demography’, Home = ‘Home’, Human behav. = ‘Human behaviour’, Perc. spp. traits = ‘Perceived species traits’, and Perc. about spp. = ‘Perceptions about species’. Factors shown in red were associated with a lower likelihood of experiencing problems, those shown in green were associated with a greater likelihood, and those shown in yellow were associated with a more complex effect. See the list of abbreviations for factors in Supplementary Materials Table S2.
| Item | Badger | Fox | Mole | Mouse | Pigeon | Rabbit | Rat | Gull | Squirrel | Wasp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Demog. | Gender (M) | Gender (M) | Gender (M) | X | X | |||||
| Increasing age | Increasing age | Increasing age | Increasing age | Increasing age | X | X | ||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Urban | Urban | Urban | Urban / fringe | X | X | |||||
| Region | Region | Region | Region | X | X | |||||
| Home | Home type | X | X | |||||||
| Older home | Older home | Older home | Older home | Older home | X | X | ||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Human behav. | X | X | ||||||||
| Garden | X | X | ||||||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Poultry / OD pets | X | X | ||||||||
| Feedstore | Feedstore | Feedstore | Feedstore | Feedstore | X | X | ||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Compost | Compost | Compost | Compost | X | X | |||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Perc. Spp. traits | X | X | ||||||||
| Enter homes | X | X | ||||||||
| Disease to people | Disease to people | X | X | |||||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Damage | Damage | Damage | Damage | Damage | Damage | Damage | X | X | ||
| Numbers | X | X | ||||||||
| X | X | |||||||||
| Perc. about spp. | Belief | Belief | Belief | Belief | Belief | Belief | Belief | Belief | X | X |
| Neg attitude | Neg attitude | Neg attitude | Neg attitude | Neg attitude | Neg attitude | Neg attitude | X | X |