Biodiversity and Conservation 10: 1039–1049, 2001. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.
Relative value of riparian woodlands in landscapes with different forest cover for medium-sized Iberian carnivores EMILIO VIRGÓS Department of Animal Biology I (Vertebrate Zoology), Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Complutense, E-28040 Madrid, Spain (Present address: Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos (IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM), C/ Libertad 7 A, E-13004 Ciudad Real, Spain e-mail:
[email protected]) Received 14 February 2000; accepted in revised form 21 July 2000
Abstract. This study analyses the role of riparian woodland in the conservation of five common carnivore species as compared with other non-riparian habitats according to woodland cover on the landscape scale (>60, 20–35 and 60% woodland and scrub cover in the 20 × 20 km square; (2) level 2: areas with 20–35% woodland and scrub cover; (3) level 3: areas with woodland and scrub cover of 60% cover)
Frequency of occurrence of the species 5/5 5/5 4/5 3/5 4/5
Riparian
10/10 (P = 0.99) 0/10 (P < 0.001) 0/10 (P = 0.004) 0/10 (P = 0.02) 1/10 (P = 0.02)
Non-riparian
Level 3 (
