Investigating food-limitation in generalist predators is difficult, because they can switch to
alternative prey, when one of their staple prey becomes scarce. Apart from data on the …

In the archeological record, the presence of smaller-bodied species is often assumed to
indicate a decline in higher-ranked, larger-bodied prey and broadening of the diet to include …

Weather conditions can have a significant influence on short-term fluctuations of animal
populations. In our study, which is based on time series of hunting bag records of up to 28 …

The management of wild rabbits is a vexing problem worldwide. In countries such as
Australia and New Zealand, wild rabbits are regarded as serious pests to agriculture and the …

On the island of Ameland (The Netherlands), natural gas has been extracted from a dune
and salt marsh natural area since 1986. This has caused a soil subsidence of c. 1–25 cm …

The number of free-living European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in the Netherlands has
declined dramatically in recent years. Although rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) …

The succession of species-rich wetland vegetation in dune valleys into species-poor dwarf
shrub vegetation was followed by means of permanent vegetation plots, in which the cover …

Context Wild rabbits are considered a key species in the coastal dunes of the Netherlands,
but populations have collapsed as a result of viral diseases. Aim We studied to what extent …

Since the pioneering study of Tinbergen (1936), very little had been published on Goshawk
Accipiter gentilis diets in The Netherlands up till the 1970s when Opdam et al.(1977) and …

Between 1990 and 2020 the numerical and reproductive performance of a raptor population
in West Drenthe were systematically monitored (36,300 h on 7274 field days). The study …