Drivers of spatio-temporal population dynamics of game species in a mountain landscape.

ABSTRACT: Since the end of the nineteenth century, socio-economic changes have greatly altered the Central European landscape and the structural and functional quality of habitats. Urban sprawl areas have appeared, a reduction of multiple forest uses has resulted in the densification of forests and agricultural land use has changed fundamentally through specialisation and intensification. Many of these changes affect biodiversity. To determine the important drivers of spatio-temporal dynamics of the population of 28 game species, we first considered a total of 130 potential explanatory variables. Second, we aggregated the main drivers of single-species models for habitat guilds. Third, we evaluated the results to aid in the development and implementation of mitigation measures for different ecoregio

SUBMITTER: Tasser E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10834489 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature