TY  - JOUR
EP  - 18
TI  - Cantabrian capercaillie through time: a further comment
IS  - 40
AV  - public
N2  - In a recent note published in this journal (Rubiales et al. 2009) we discuss the role the long-term  environmental history of the Cantabrian Mountains may have played in the dynamics of the Cantabrian  capercaillie Tetrao urogallus cantabricus, the only subspecies of capercaillie at risk of extinction  worldwide. Three key conclusions, in the light of the available palaeoecological data were that: 1) the  vegetation occurring within the range of the Cantabrian capercaillie has heavily changed during the last  three millennia, due primarily to anthropogenic activity; 2) the extensive distribution of pinewoods until the historical period is coherent with the pattern of association of capercaillie and conifers occurring in  the rest of its range; and 3) in the light of the distinct current patterns of decline and persistence of the  capercaillie, it could be expected that the demise of pinewoods (becoming locally extinct at the western  part of the Cantabrian mountains) would have had implications in the capercaillie persistence in the long  term
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A1  - Rubiales Jimenez, Juan Manuel
A1  - Ezquerra Boticario, J.
A1  - Gómez Manzaneque, Fernando
A1  - García Álvarez, Salvia
A1  - Garcia-Amorena Gomez del Moral, Ignacio
A1  - Morla Juaristi, Carlos
SP  - 16
JF  - Grouse News
ID  - upm7638
Y1  - 2010/01//
PB  - Black Grouse
ER  -