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Table 1 Summary of the applied sampling protocol: number of survey locations, dates, and type of vegetation (habitat)

From: Monitoring European wildcat Felis silvestris populations using scat surveys in central Spain: are population trends related to wild rabbit dynamics or to landscape features?

Number of locations

Period 1

Period 2

Time span

Type of vegetation

P1 Wildcat AI

P2 Wildcat AI

 

(P1)

(P2)

(years)

 

(mean ± SE)

(mean ± SE)

8

1997

2004

7

Mediterranean

  

2

1998

2004

6

Mediterranean

  

3

1999

2004

5

Mediterranean

0.19 ± 0.05

0.27 ± 0.09

5

2000

2004

4

Mediterranean

  

21

2002

2005

3

Agricultural

0.11 ± 0.04

0.2 ± 0.05

  1. Mean values of the wildcat abundance index (AI) according to type of vegetation for both periods are shown.