Tese de doutoramento, Biologia (Biologia da Conservação), 2009, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências ; The goal of this thesis is to provide sound information related to humaninduced landscape changes on the Portuguese carnivore guild. More specifically, it addresses at what scale(s) extent(s) did carnivores appear to respond to fragmentation; which are the patterns of carnivore vehicle collisions and...
Owls are one of the birds of prey most commonly found dead along roads. Thus, we investigated the importance of 22 environmental variables on the owl casualties and developed predictive models to estimate the likelihood of owl-vehicle collisions in Alentejo, southern Portugal. We recorded 123 corpses of three owl species, the Barn Owl Tyto alba made up 43% (n=53) of the road-kills, followed by the Little O...
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