BOOK: «Spanish game species in the XNUMXst century»

    Spanish game species XXI century_CoverThe book "Spanish game species in the XNUMXst century» has an outstanding scientific contribution from the Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC – CSIC, UCLM, JCCM), and is the result of a titanic work of gathering data and information that allows to know the evolution, demographic trends and distribution of current abundances of the main game species in Spain.

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    For each of the 17 species analyzed A graph is provided that represents the evolution of hunting results by season, from the 2000/01 season to the 2017/18 season. The visual information on each species is completed with two maps that show the recent evolution – from the 2013/14 season to the 2017/18 season – of the hunting results by autonomous community and the provincial hunting results for the 2017 season. /18 per square kilometer of area, respectively. accompanying text explains the variations observed over time and territorial differences, analyzing their implications for optimal management of each of the treated species.

    The book concludes with a chapter in which the authors reflect on the different factors that determine the observed changes, generally related to human activity, and encourage the reader to reflect on what the environment should be like. population monitoring of game species in the XNUMXst century.

    The raw data on which the results and conclusions of the book are based They can be consulted in the following databases, which are downloadable and freely accessible:[Data by provinces] (for the 2013/14 to 2017/18 seasons) and [Data by communities] (for seasons 2000/01 to 2017/18).

    El Dr. Christian Gortazar, IREC researcher and co-author of the book, is interviewed on the program “agrarian wave” by Onda Cero about the contents of the book and its usefulness to know the population status of the main game species in Spain, as well as its evolution over the last two decades. You can access the full podcast [minutes 8:30 to 18:18]. You can also access the interview they did on the program «WCW Wake up« of Radiotelevision of Castilla-La Mancha.