A large-scale survey of brown hare Lepus europaeus and Iberian hare L. granatensis populations at the limit of their ranges

Wildlife Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 244-250

  Gortazar, Christian ^a   Millán, Javier ^a,d   Acevedo, Pelayo ^a   Escudero, Marco A ^b   Marco, Javier ^b   De Luco, Daniel Fernández ^c  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^b Ebronatura S L ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hare; Lepus europaeus; Lepus granatensis; Population trend; Relative abundance; Spain; Spotlighting

Indexed keywords

LEPUS CAPENSIS; LEPUS EUROPAEUS; LEPUS GRANATENSIS;

EID: 35348954447     PISSN: 09096396     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2981/0909-6396(2007)13[244:ALSOBH]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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