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Decline of transhumance will negatively to impact vulture communities

An international team of scientists reveals in a new study that the abandonment of traditional livestock farming activities, such as transhumance, could be detrimental to scavenger communities. This activity has configured landscape across the world and has created ecosystems, which have benefited a great number of animal and plant species, including vultures. The research work has been carried out by scientists at the University of Granada, the Miguel Hernández University, the Doñana...

High livestock numbers have a negative influence on Canarian Egyptian vultures’ body condition

Individual traits such as body mass can serve as early warning signals of changes in the fitness prospects of animal populations facing environmental impacts. Here, taking advantage of a 19?year monitoring, the question how individual, population and environmental factors modulate long?term changes in the body mass of Canarian Egyptian vultures was addressed. Individual vulture body mass increased when primary productivity was highly variable, but decreased in years with a high abundance of...

Interactions between domestic and wild ungulates

Controlling infections shared by wildlife and livestock requires the understanding and quantification of interspecific interactions between the species involved. This is particularly important in extensive multi-host systems, in which controlled domestic animals interact with uncontrolled, abundant and expanding wild species, such as wild ungulates. The interspecific interactions between wild boar and freeranging cattle were quantified in Mediterranean Spain, along with their spatio-temporal...