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Invisible barriers: Differential sanitary regulations constrain vulture movements across country borders


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Título :
Invisible barriers: Differential sanitary regulations constrain vulture movements across country borders
Autor :
Arrondo, Eneko
Moleón, Marcos
Cortés Avizanda, Ainara
Jiménez, José
Beja, Pedro
Sánchez Zapata, José Antonio
Donázar, José Antonio  
Departamento:
Departamentos de la UMH::Biología Aplicada
Fecha de publicación:
2018-01-10
URI :
http://hdl.handle.net/11000/5997
Resumen :
Political boundaries may represent ecological barriers due to differences in wildlife management policies. In the European Union, it might be expected that these differences should be highly diluted, because all countries have to comply with common directives issued by the European Commission. However, the subsidiarity principle may lead to the uneven uptake of European Union regulations, which can impact on biodiversity conservation due to unequal legislation in neighboring countries, particularly in the case of highly mobile organisms. Here we address this issue, by analyzing how EU regulations issued in response to the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis differentially affected vulture conservation in Portugal and Spain. Taking advantage of the intensive GPS-tracking of 60 griffon (Gyps fulvus) and 11 cinereous vultures (Aegypius monachus) from Spain, we found that the Spanish-Portuguese border acts as a quasi-impermeable barrier. In fact, there was an abrupt decline in the number of vulture locations across the Spanish-Portuguese border, with modelling showing that this was unlikely to be related to differences in land cover or topography. Instead, the pattern found was likely due to differences in trophic resource availability, namely carcasses from extensive livestock husbandry, resulting from the differential application of European sanitary legislation regarding the mandatory removal of dead livestock from the field. Overall, our results should be seen as a warning signal to policy makers and conservation managers, highlighting the need for a stronger integration of sanitary and environmental policies at the European level.
Palabras clave/Materias:
Aegypius monachus
Ecological barriers
EU sanitary policies
Extensive livestock
Gyps fulvus
Iberian Peninsula
Political boundaries
Portugal
Scavengers
Spain
Área de conocimiento :
Biología general y teórica
Tipo documento :
application/pdf
Derechos de acceso:
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
DOI :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2017.12.039
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Artículos Biología Aplicada



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