Is It Necessary Managing Carnivores to Reverse the Decline of Endangered Prey Species? Insights from a Removal Experiment of Mesocarnivores to Benefit Demographic Parameters of the Pyrenean Capercaillie

• Rubén Moreno-Opo ,

  * E-mail: at_sgb4@magrama.es

  Affiliations Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Madrid, Spain, TRAGSATEC, Madrid, Spain

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• Iván Afonso,

  Affiliations MUSIA, La Plana, Lleida, Spain, Association for the Conservation of Capercaillie (ACU), Buseu, Baix Pallars, Spain

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• José Jiménez,

  Affiliation Institute of Research in Game Resources-CSIC, Ciudad Real, Spain

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• Mariana Fernández-Olalla,

  Affiliation ETSI de Montes. University Politécnica Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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• Jordi Canut,

  Affiliations Association for the Conservation of Capercaillie (ACU), Buseu, Baix Pallars, Spain, Alt Pirineu Natural Park, Llavorsí, Spain

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• Diego García-Ferré,

  Affiliation Departament d´Agricultura, Ramaderia, Pesca, Alimentació i Medi Ambient, Generalitat de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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• Josep Piqué,

  Affiliation TRAGSATEC, Madrid, Spain

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• Francisco García,

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Madrid, Spain

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• Job Roig,

  Affiliation Association for the Conservation of Capercaillie (ACU), Buseu, Baix Pallars, Spain

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• Jaime Muñoz-Igualada,

  Affiliations Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Madrid, Spain, TRAGSATEC, Madrid, Spain

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• Luis Mariano González,

  Affiliation Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Madrid, Spain

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• José Vicente López-Bao

  Affiliations Research Unit of Biodiversity, Oviedo University, Mieres, Spain, Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden

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