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Social representations of agriculture among schoolchildren in northern Portugal...

This article focuses on analysing the social representations of school-age young people about agriculture, in an attempt to gain access to their perceptions, images and meanings, how they construct and communicate them and the possible implications of these perceptions. To this end, focus groups were set up and the data was analysed using max qda plus 2020 content analysis software. The results reflect the dyna...

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Conserving saproxylic flagship species by complementing 150 years of natural hi...

The use of flagship species in conservation, such as the European Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus), can positively affect the conservation of other taxonomic or functionally related species. This is especially true for taxonomic groups where the knowledge regarding their distribution and ecology is generally limited, as is the case of insects. This work represents the most accurate and up-to-date publication on the...

Three Decades of Research on Iberian Wild Ungulates: Key Insights and Promising...

The Iberian Peninsula is witnessing ever-faster environmental changes, and new challenges for wild ungulates are continuously emerging as they become more abundant and widespread. We conducted a systematic review to analyse the knowledge on wild ungulates inhabiting the Iberian Peninsula. We used Web of Science and Scopus search engines, complemented by searches in nonindexed journals, to examine peer-reviewed ...

Climatic‐niche breadth, niche position, and speciation in lizards and snakes

Aim: The climatic niche is associated with diversification in many groups of animals and plants. However, the relationships between climatic-niche breadth evolution, climatic-niche position evolution, and speciation remain underexplored. It is particularly unclear whether changes in climatic-niche breadth are related to diversification. We tested two hypotheses relating niche breadth, niche position, and specia...

Brown bear habitat use patterns across 19 years of population expansion in the ...

Context Large carnivores have faced severe extinction pressures throughout Europe during the last centuries, where human-induced disturbances reached unprecedented levels. In the late twentieth century, the Cantabrian brown bear population was on the verge of extinction, due to poaching. Yet, the end of the last century was a turning point for this population. Presence data on the western Cantabrian subpopulati...

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Avenues for Coexistence: How Perception of Costs and Benefits Shape Attitudes t...

Human dimensions play a pivotal role in wolf management and conservation. To offer an informed basis to improve Human-Wolf coexistence, we explore how socio-demographic factors, fear, knowledge, and perceptions of costs and benefits of wolf presence drive human attitudes in the southern area of the Douro River, Portugal, a region inhabited by a small and endangered wolf population. We interviewed 220 people (17...

Friend or foe, what do the locals say? Attitudes towards the endangered Iberian...

The endangered Iberian wolf (Canis lupus signatus) populations have been decreasing in Portugal due to a combination of factors such as habitat destruction and human persecution. This is particularly worrying in Central Portugal, where packs are highly fragmented, isolated, and with few individuals. Human-Wildlife-Conflicts occur in this area due to high levels of livestock depredation, an outcome of the low di...

Potential persistence of high‐mountain lizards

Climate change will impact environments globally. These changes, however, can affect species or regions differently. The upward limitation of highmountain species suggests these are especially prone to the effects of climate change. We assess the impact of future climate scenarios on high-mountain species' suitable climatic niches. We gathered 1351 occurrence records of highmountain (>2000 m asl) squamates and ...