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Torres-Porras, J., Carranza, J., Pérez-González, J., Mateos, C., Alarcos, S. (2013) The tragedy of the commons: unsustainable population structure of Iberian red deer in hunting estates. European Journal of Wildlife Research 60 (2),351–357 Hunting can influence population structure with consequences in ecological and evolutionary processes. Populations of Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) in Spain Leer másTorres-Porras, J. et al. (2013)[…]
Carranza, J. 2009. Gestión del ciervo en el monte mediterráneo. En: Gestión Cinegética en los Ecosistemas Mediterráneos. Sáenz de Buruaga, M. & Carranza, J. (Eds.). Publ. Junta de Andalucía. Hunting of ungulates has recently become more popular and more in demand, partly because of their expanded distribution areas and abundance, and also because of an Leer másCarranza (2009)[…]
Carranza, J. 2009. Calidad genética en la gestión de la caza mayor. En: Gestión Cinegética en los Ecosistemas Mediterráneos.. Sáenz de Buruaga, M. & Carranza, J. (Eds.). Publ. Junta de Andalucía. Management of game species may involve a risk of alteration of their genetic properties. Local adaptations may be disrupted if artificially selected individuals from Leer másCarranza (2009)[…]
Vargas, J.M. & Carranza, J. 2009. Calidad cinegética certificada. En: Gestión Cinegética en los Ecosistemas Mediterráneos. Sáenz de Buruaga, M. & Carranza, J. (Eds.). Publ. Junta de Andalucía. Hunting, in a biological context, is the rational and sustainable exploitation of wild animal populations whose capture is legally authorized. Game species constitute a renewable but limited Leer másVargas & Carranza (2009)[…]
CARRANZA, J. 2009. Defining sexual selection as sex-depent selection. Animal Behaviour 77: 749-751. After almost 150 years of research, the very definition of sexual selection remains unclear. The term sexual selection was coined in 1859 by Darwin (1859), who described it in more detail in his later book (Darwin 1871), as an explanation for the Leer másCarranza, J. (2009)[…]
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