![]() ![]() In the same areas, the type and intensity of game management practices were obtained by interviewing hunting managers, hunters or gamekeepers. The percentage of vegetation cover and of different soil types were also estimated during these transects. Each survey consisted of 4-km walked transects to record indices of rabbit abundance. To determine recent rabbit population changes we revisited 60 localities during summer 2002 to repeat surveys previously carried out in 1993. We investigated the relationships between rabbit population change and habitat and game management in central-southern Spain. Over recent decades wild rabbit populations have undergone a sharp decline in Spain with consequent negative impact both on a game-based economy, and on the conservation of threatened species that depend on rabbits.
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