La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Effects of hunting management on Mediterranean farmland birds (2015)
Auteurs :	Jesus Caro, Auteur ; Miguel Delibes-Mateos, Auteur ; Alba Estrada, Auteur ; Rui Borralho, Auteur ; Luis Gordinho, Auteur ; Luis Reino, Auteur ; Pedro Beja, Auteur ; Beatriz Arroyo, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	Bird Conservation International (25(2) JUN 2015)
Article en page(s) :	166-181
Résumé :	Hunting and its associated management have significant costs and benefits for biodiversity conservation, which makes this socio-economic activity highly controversial at both international and regional levels. We investigated relationships between management for small game species (mainly Red-legged Partridges Alectoris rufa and rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus) and both abundance and richness of farmland and scrubland songbirds, raptors and ground-nesting birds, and on the abundance of three species of conservation concern (Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax, Eurasian Thick-knee Burhinus oedicnemus and Montagu's Harrier Circus pygargus) in southern Portugal farmland. We compared 12 game estates and

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