Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised
Recreational hunting is widespread and can benefit nature conservation when well‐practised, monitored, and regulated. Management for recreational red grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica shooting on upland heathland in the UK causes conservation conflict because the intensive habitat, predator, and diseas...
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ftdans:oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:113318 2023-07-02T03:32:53+02:00 Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised Watson, Adam Wilson, Jeremy D. 2018-08-14T13:19:16.000+02:00 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-g8-fj0z https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:113318 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.s70544p/1 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13235 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-g8-fj0z doi:10.5061/dryad.s70544p https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:113318 OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf Life sciences medicine and health care 2018 ftdans https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s70544p/110.1111/1365-2664.1323510.5061/dryad.s70544p 2023-06-13T13:32:33Z Recreational hunting is widespread and can benefit nature conservation when well‐practised, monitored, and regulated. Management for recreational red grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica shooting on upland heathland in the UK causes conservation conflict because the intensive habitat, predator, and disease management needed to maintain high‐grouse densities for “driven” shooting has detrimental environmental impacts, notably for raptor populations. Sustainable management of mountain hares Lepus timidus scoticus, a game species in the same landscapes, poses a challenge. Control of transmission to grouse of a viral disease, louping‐ill, for which mountain hares are a host, has become an additional motivation to kill mountain hares since research during 1993–2001 suggested that culls might reduce infection rates in grouse. We analysed population trends of mountain hares from spring counts on moorland managed for grouse shooting and on contiguous alpine land. On moorland sites, a long‐term decline (4.6% per annum) from 1954 to 1999 increased to 30.7% per annum from then until 2017, with a density index falling to <1% of initial levels after 2008. Before 1999, declines were associated with conifer planting and were least severe where heather burning characteristic of grouse management was present. Grouse moors had the highest rate of decline after 1999. On alpine sites, the density index increased by 2.0% per annum from 1954 to 2007, then declined by 12.3% per annum but remained within the previous range of variation. Despite lack of evidence that it increases grouse numbers, reduction of louping‐ill transmission to grouse became a more frequent justification for mountain hare culls at a time consistent with it causing these recent, rapid mountain hare declines on grouse moors. Synthesis and applications. Long‐term field counts suggest that intensification of game bird management has resulted in severe, recent declines in mountain hare numbers, exacerbating longer term declines associated with land‐use change. ... Other/Unknown Material Lepus timidus mountain hare Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS): EASY (KNAW - Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen) |
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Recreational hunting is widespread and can benefit nature conservation when well‐practised, monitored, and regulated. Management for recreational red grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica shooting on upland heathland in the UK causes conservation conflict because the intensive habitat, predator, and disease management needed to maintain high‐grouse densities for “driven” shooting has detrimental environmental impacts, notably for raptor populations. Sustainable management of mountain hares Lepus timidus scoticus, a game species in the same landscapes, poses a challenge. Control of transmission to grouse of a viral disease, louping‐ill, for which mountain hares are a host, has become an additional motivation to kill mountain hares since research during 1993–2001 suggested that culls might reduce infection rates in grouse. We analysed population trends of mountain hares from spring counts on moorland managed for grouse shooting and on contiguous alpine land. On moorland sites, a long‐term decline (4.6% per annum) from 1954 to 1999 increased to 30.7% per annum from then until 2017, with a density index falling to <1% of initial levels after 2008. Before 1999, declines were associated with conifer planting and were least severe where heather burning characteristic of grouse management was present. Grouse moors had the highest rate of decline after 1999. On alpine sites, the density index increased by 2.0% per annum from 1954 to 2007, then declined by 12.3% per annum but remained within the previous range of variation. Despite lack of evidence that it increases grouse numbers, reduction of louping‐ill transmission to grouse became a more frequent justification for mountain hare culls at a time consistent with it causing these recent, rapid mountain hare declines on grouse moors. Synthesis and applications. Long‐term field counts suggest that intensification of game bird management has resulted in severe, recent declines in mountain hare numbers, exacerbating longer term declines associated with land‐use change. ... |
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Watson, Adam Wilson, Jeremy D. |
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Watson, Adam Wilson, Jeremy D. |
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Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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Data from: Seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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data from: seven decades of mountain hare counts show severe declines where high‐yield recreational game bird hunting is practised |
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2018 |
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Lepus timidus mountain hare |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.s70544p/1 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13235 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-g8-fj0z doi:10.5061/dryad.s70544p https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:113318 |
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OPEN_ACCESS: The data are archived in Easy, they are accessible elsewhere through the DOI https://dans.knaw.nl/en/about/organisation-and-policy/legal-information/DANSLicence.pdf |
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https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.s70544p/110.1111/1365-2664.1323510.5061/dryad.s70544p |
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