Mediterranean ecosystems are rich in wildlife species and habitats. In the last decades human pressure is increasing in lowland and coastal areas, while mountainous and island …
Animals may perceive humans as a form of predatory threat, a disturbance, triggering behavioral changes together with the activation of physiological stress responses. These …
Predation is increasingly pointed out as one of the factors contributing to population declines of ground-nesting farmland birds, though it remains poorly understood how ongoing …
The effects of habitat fragmentation on species may change seasonally mainly due to variations in resource availability and biotic interactions. In critical periods, such as winter …
Abstract Knowledge of feeding ecology of declining species, such as farmland birds, is essential to address their conservation requirements, especially when their habitats are …
The Little Bustard Tetrax tetrax (Linnaeus, 1758) is a medium-sized,'Near Threatened'steppe bird, whose Iberian population has been alarmingly declining over recent decades …
B Binzenhöfer, B Schröder, B Strauss… - Biological …, 2005 - Elsevier
In this paper, habitat models were used to predict potential habitat for endangered species, which is an important question in landscape and conservation planning. Based on logistic …
Over the last two decades, monitoring of and research into the little bustard was carried out mainly in western Europe, and has enabled the identification of important threats to the …
Collision with conductors and earth cables is a known impact generated by transmission power lines, however there is virtually no information on how these infrastructures might …