Diversity, abundance or rare species as a target for the conservation of mammalian carnivores: a case study in Southern Spain

ALEJANDRO TRAVAINI; MIGUEL DELIBES; PABLO FERRERAS; FRANCISCO PALOMARES

BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

SPRINGER

Año: 1997 vol. 6 p. 529 - 535

0960-3115

Management goals in protected areas and/or communities ussually include diversity as one of the most valuable and confident criteria. Nevertheless, the use of diversity and related indices as a means of evaluating successful management practices could produce conflicting results. Here we report a case study in one of the most important European protected areas.