European rabbit population trends and associated factors: a review of the situation in the Iberian Peninsula

M DELIBES‐MATEOS, P Ferreras… - Mammal …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT 1 European rabbits are considered a keystone species in the Iberian Peninsula.
Their populations have sharply declined over the past century, mainly due to habitat loss …

One tool in the box: the role of hunters in mitigating the damages associated to abundant wildlife

C Gortázar, J Fernandez-de-Simon - European Journal of Wildlife …, 2022 - Springer
Many game species are prey species and evolved to cope with significant mortality by
natural predators. In the absence of predation or hunting, these game populations will be …

Reverse of the decline of the endangered Iberian lynx

MA Simon, JM Gil-Sánchez, G Ruiz, G Garrote… - Conservation …, 2012 - JSTOR
The Iberian lynx (Lynxpardinus) was declared critically endangered by the International
Union for the Conserva tion of Nature (IUCN) in 2002, and the species is a flag ship for …

Rabbits: manageable environmental pests or participants in new Australian ecosystems?

BD Cooke - Wildlife Research, 2012 - CSIRO Publishing
Some theorists argue that plant and animal species introduced to new localities should be
controlled only if they cause damage and not because they originated in another country; …

Short-term responses of mammalian carnivores to a sudden collapse of rabbits in Mediterranean Spain

P Ferreras, A Travaini, SC Zapata, M Delibes - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2011 - Elsevier
The European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) is a key prey species for most Mediterranean
predators in the Iberian Peninsula, including some endangered species such as the Iberian …

Towards a standardized index of European rabbit abundance in Iberian Mediterranean habitats

J Fernandez-de-Simon, F Díaz-Ruiz, F Cirilli… - European Journal of …, 2011 - Springer
European rabbits Oryctolagus cuniculus are a keystone species in Iberian Mediterranean
ecosystems. However, the reliability of methods for estimating rabbit abundance, particularly …

Effects of food supplementation on home‐range size, reproductive success, productivity and recruitment in a small population of Iberian lynx

JV López‐Bao, F Palomares, A Rodríguez… - Animal …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
In a conservation context, food supplementation is a management tool used to reverse the
decline of food‐limited populations by means of positive changes in behaviour and fitness …

Causes and predictors of nest mortality in a European rabbit population

HG Rödel, A Starkloff, MW Seltmann, G Prager… - Mammalian …, 2009 - Springer
We conducted a study on nest mortality of an individually marked population of European
rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus L., 1758) living in a field enclosure. Over 4 years, we …

Influence of weather factors on population dynamics of two lagomorph species based on hunting bag records

HG Rödel, JJA Dekker - European journal of wildlife research, 2012 - Springer
Weather conditions can have a significant influence on short-term fluctuations of animal
populations. In our study, which is based on time series of hunting bag records of up to 28 …

Using PGFM (13, 14-dihydro-15-keto-prostaglandin F2α) as a non-invasive pregnancy marker for felids

M Dehnhard, C Finkenwirth, A Crosier, L Penfold… - Theriogenology, 2012 - Elsevier
Understanding the complex endocrine interactions that control reproduction in felids is
essential for captive breeding management. The most important demand is a quick and …