Historical dynamics of a declining wolf population: persecution vs. prey reduction
Abstract Using records from archives detailing bounties for wolves killed in northern Spain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, we investigated demographic and spatial distribution parameters of the population to determine whether direct persecution or prey availability was responsible f...
Published in: | European Journal of Wildlife Research |
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Language: | English |
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Springer-Verlag
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/42009 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10344-009-0300-5 |