Fig 1.
Minimum convex polygons delimiting the hunting areas surveyed throughout the Autonomous Region of Extremadura, western Spain.
Delimitation between municipalities, provinces, and Autonomous Regions, represented with thin to thick lines, are shown for reference. Sources: OrtoPNOA 2021 CC-BY 4.0 scne.es and Natural Earth (public domain): http://www.naturalearthdata.com/.
Fig 2.
Distribution of 4-km2 sampling units (squares) among the seven hunting areas (A-F). Within each sampling unit, the trajectory followed during the field sampling is represented. A) Cabeza Redonda (CRE); B) Dehesa Boyal (DBO); C) Guadalupe (GUA); D) Mengabril (MEN); E) Robledo (ROB); F) Serrezuela 3 (SER); G) Sierra de Fuentes (SFU). Source: OrtoPNOA 2021 CC-BY 4.0 scne.es.
Table 1.
Hunting area surface, distance covered, and effort applied during field sampling.
Table 2.
Parameter estimates showing differences in ability to identify mesocarnivores between hunters and other local people.
Fig 3.
Mean relative abundance of mesocarnivores and damage caused to small game species perceived by the respondents.
Table 3.
Relative abundance of mesocarnivore and small game species recorded during field samplings across each 4-km2 sampling unit.
Table 4.
Dissimilarity between the relative abundance perceived by respondents and the relative abundance recorded during field sampling.