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Rapid evaluation of threats to biodiversity: human footprint score and large vertebrate species responses in French Guiana
Although there is an extensive literature demonstrating the impact of human activities on both species extinction risk and local ecological...
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Badger Meles meles feeding ecology in dry Mediterranean environments of the southwest edge of its distribution range
The dietary preference of badgers Meles meles (Linnaeus, 1758) for earthworms and other food resources has been widely discussed. In the...
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Predator abundance in relation to small game management in southern Portugal: conservation implications
The interaction between hunting interests and legally protected predators is often a contentious conservation problem, requiring detailed...
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Carnivore population trends in Spanish agrosystems after the reduction in food availability due to rabbit decline by rabbit haemorrhagic disease and improved waste management
We conducted spotlight counts from 1992 to 2006 in 59 localities to describe carnivore presence, distribution and relative abundance in open...
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WeaselMustela nivalis spatial ranging behaviour and habitat selection in agricultural landscape
This paper reports the findings of a study on the spacing pattern of a population of weasels Mustela nivalis Linnaeus, 1758 in central Italy. We...
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Assessment of large-vertebrate species richness and relative abundance in Neotropical forest using line-transect censuses: what is the minimal effort required?
Line-transect sampling is a strategy commonly used to assess richness and abundance of large diurnal vertebrates in tropical forests, but the...
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Managing Large Herbivores in Theory and Practice: Is the Game the Same for Browsing and Grazing Species
Management of large wild herbivores sometimes includes action on the availability of resources and/or on the abundance of predators, but the...
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Determinants for the conservation of a vulnerable fire-dependent species at its marginal range
We investigated the role of fire and other potential biotic and abiotic determinants for the occurrence of an obligate seeder and active pyrophyte, Cis...
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Hunting for answers: rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) population trends in northeastern Spain
Some populations of European wild rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ) in Spain have recovered after rabbit hemorrhagic disease, but others (the majority)...
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Cost and Efficiency of Large Mammal Census Techniques: Comparison of Methods for a Participatory Approach in a Communal Area, Zimbabwe
The comparison of precision is often advocated for the selection of an appropriate census and/or monitoring method for wildlife, but little attention...
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Biodiversity patterns along a salinity gradient: the case of net-spinning caddisflies
Many studies have shown that salinity reduces diversity and abundance of, and alters trophic structures in freshwater macroinvertebrate communities....
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Effect of observer experience on the monitoring of a mouflon population
Analysis of changes in population size can be severely biased when factors related to the acquisition of data, such as differences between observer...
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The use of systems analysis methods in the sustainable management of wetlands
The management of the utilisation of natural resources from wetland ecosystems is a multiobjective and complex task. The creation of innovative...
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Methods in landscape ecology
This chapter is particularly important because it is an attempt to quantify, using different approaches, the main attributes of a landscape. Routines...
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Forest Eco-Units
The formal definition of different kinds of eco-units is not so easy as it appears in a forest scale-drawing (cf. Sect. 5.4). Oldeman (1983b, p. 176)...