About the Authors

Alberto Fernández-Gil

albertofg@ebd.csic.es

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain

Javier Naves

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain

Andrés Ordiz

Current address: Department of Ecology, Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Riddarhyttan, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden

Affiliation Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway

Mario Quevedo

Affiliation Departamento de Biología de Organismos y Sistemas / UMIB, Universidad de Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain

Eloy Revilla

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain

Miguel Delibes

Affiliation Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AFG JN ER MD. Performed the experiments: AFG JN AO MQ ER MD. Analyzed the data: AFG JN AO MQ ER. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AFG JN MQ ER. Wrote the paper: AFG JN AO MQ ER MD.