A national monitoring scheme for recording the abundance of foxes and badgers in Britain
would have to utilize a technique or techniques that could detect a wide range of animal …

Latrines are accumulations of two to several hundred faeces resulting from the repeated use
of the same defecation sites by the same or several individuals. Many carnivores deposit …

Background The management of many pathogens, which are of concern to humans and
their livestock, is complicated by the pathogens' ability to cross-infect multiple host species …

Reliable methods to estimate species richness are very important to managers and
conservationists because they provide key data to make the right decisions in conservation …

Summary 1 The incidence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) in British cattle has risen markedly
over the last two decades. Failure to control the disease in cattle has been linked to the …

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 …

BACKGROUND: Bovine tuberculosis (TB) has re-emerged as a major problem for British
cattle farmers. Failure to control the infection has been linked to transmission from European …

Carnivores are umbrella species with a key role in ecosystems. In the Mediterranean, they
face with several conservation problems, mainly habitat loss or transformation. In this region …

Studies on the distribution of mammalian carnivores in fragmented landscapes have
focused mainly on structural aspects such as patch and landscape features; similarly, habitat …

Small-game hunting plays an important economic role in central Spain and some game
species are key food resources for threatened predators. Small carnivores may reduce …