[HTML][HTML] Effects of land abandonment on nature contributions to people and good quality of life components in the Mediterranean region: A review

C Quintas-Soriano, A Buerkert, T Plieninger - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Land abandonment is a process widespread in many regions of the world as a
consequence of socio-economic conditions and changes on the use of land. Research has …

Disease risks and overabundance of game species

C Gortázar, P Acevedo, F Ruiz-Fons… - European Journal of …, 2006 - Springer
Different studies have evidenced the relationship between host abundance and health
status of wildlife populations. Diseases that benefit from wildlife overabundance can affect …

[PDF][PDF] Rewilding abandoned landscapes in Europe

LM Navarro, HM Pereira - Rewilding european landscapes, 2015 - library.oapen.org
For millennia, mankind has shaped landscapes, particularly through agriculture. In Europe,
the age-old interaction between humans and ecosystems strongly influenced the cultural …

The status of tuberculosis in European wild mammals

C Gortázar, RJ Delahay, RA Mcdonald… - Mammal …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT 1 Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis and
related members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. Infection affects not only cattle …

A review of viral diseases of the European wild boar: effects of population dynamics and reservoir role

F Ruiz-Fons, J Segalés, C Gortázar - The Veterinary Journal, 2008 - Elsevier
There has been a worldwide increase in the number and geographical spread of wild boar
populations in recent decades leading to an increase in both the circulation of disease …

Estimation of European wild boar relative abundance and aggregation: a novel method in epidemiological risk assessment

P Acevedo, J Vicente, U Höfle, J Cassinello… - Epidemiology & …, 2007 - cambridge.org
Wild boars are important disease reservoirs. It is well known that abundance estimates are
needed in wildlife epidemiology, but the expense and effort required to obtain them is …

Wild boar and red deer display high prevalences of tuberculosis-like lesions in Spain

J Vicente, U Höfle, JM Garrido, IG Fernández-De-Mera… - 2006 - digitalcommons.unl.edu
We describe the distribution of tuberculosis-like lesions (TBL) in wild boar (Sus scrofa) and
red deer (Cervus elaphus) in Spain. Animals with TBL were confirmed in 84.21% of mixed …

A Review of the Current Status of Relevant Zoonotic Pathogens in Wild Swine (Sus scrofa) Populations: Changes Modulating the Risk of Transmission to Humans

F Ruiz‐Fons - Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Many wild swine populations in different parts of the W orld have experienced an
unprecedented demographic explosion that may result in increased exposure of humans to …

Factors affecting wild boar abundance across an environmental gradient in Spain

P Acevedo, MA Escudero, R Muńoz, C Gortázar - Acta Theriologica, 2006 - Springer
The recent Europe-wide increase in wild boar Sus scrofa, Linnaeus, 1758 abundance is
undoubtedly due to many different factors, the relative importance of which differs from …

Estimating red deer abundance in a wide range of management situations in Mediterranean habitats

P Acevedo, F Ruiz‐Fons, J Vicente… - Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
When human interventions interfere with the natural regulation of wildlife populations by
favouring some species, overabundance can emerge. We evaluated different methods of …