About the Authors

Esperanza Gil-Jiménez

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, Seville, Spain

Miriam Villamuelas

Affiliation Servei d’ Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugia Animal, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain

Emmanuel Serrano

Affiliations Servei d’ Ecopatologia de Fauna Salvatge, Departamento de Medicina y Cirugia Animal, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain, CESAM, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Miguel Delibes

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, Seville, Spain

Néstor Fernández

nestor@ebd.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica, Spanish Council for Scientific Research CSIC, Seville, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NF ES MD. Performed the experiments: EG NF. Analyzed the data: EG NF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EG NF MV ES. Wrote the paper: EG NF. Contributed to revising the manuscript: MV ES MD.