Eduardo Laguna

• PhD
• Fundación Artemisan

Resultados preliminares sobre el método de seguimiento específico de codorniz llevado a cabo durante los años 2023 y 2024. Presentación presentada el 26 de marzo en la International Conference o Paleartic Steppe Birds celebrada en Ciudad Real (Spain)

Los pulsos de recursos tróficos son eventos breves y temporales de alta disponibilidad de recursos en un ecosistema, como agua, nutrientes o alimento, que puede tener efectos significativos sobre las dinámicas de las poblaciones y las interacciones entre especies. Este estudio examinó la depredación de nidos artificiales de anátidas en el Parque Na...

Pese a que la caza de los zorzales en España goza de gran popularidad (con 4-5 millones de capturas/temporada según datos oficiales), el conocimiento científico sobre el aprovechamiento cinegético de las cuatro especies autorizadas dentro del territorio nacional es limitado, siendo el principal objetivo de este estudio. Para ello, recopilamos infor...

Interspecific interactions are highly relevant in the potential transmission of shared pathogens in multi‐host systems. In recent decades, several technologies have been developed to study pathogen transmission, such as proximity loggers, GPS tracking devices and/or camera traps. Despite the diversity of methods aimed at detecting contacts, the ana...

Abstract A new regulation has led to the prohibition of recreational hunting on estates located within Spanish National Parks (NPs). Before the ban, eleven NPs in Spain had already reported negative ecological consequences associated with high densities of wild ungulates. The new situation that has occurred after the ban signifies that policies wi...

The European Observatory of Wildlife (EOW, https://wildlifeobservatory.org/) is an EFSA-funded (European Food and Safety Authority) initiative run by the ENETWILD project (www.enetwild.com). The EOW aims to improve harmonizing wildlife monitoring methods throughout the Europe and provide the possibilities to estimate the density of wildlife across...

Expanding wild boar populations associate to conflicts with human activities, being a threat to livestock and public health. Particularly, the emergence of African Swine Fever (ASF) in Europe is of major importance. To better understanding the dynamics at the interface between wild boar and domestic pigs in Europe, which is essential to prevent the...

The European Observatory of Wildlife (EOW) as part of the ENETWILD project, aims to improve the European capacity for monitoring wildlife populations, implementing international standards for data collection, providing guidance on wildlife density estimation, and finally, to promote collaborative, open data networks to develop wildlife monitorin...

The supplementary feeding of wild ungulates is a common and pervasive practice throughout Europe, but the understanding on its unintended ecological effects is still limited. This management action has different degrees of intensity from artificial grasslands to supplementation in feeders, since the type and criteria of each supplementary feeding p...

European wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) and red-legged partridge (Alectoris rufa) are main small game species of conservation concern in Mediterranean ecosystems. To date, their presence in wild boar’s (Sus scrofa) diet and factors driving their consumption have been little investigated. A genetic metabarcoding approach was used on 80 wild boa...

The International Symposium on Wild Boar and Other Suids (IWBS 2022), which took place in Montseny Biosphere Reserve (Catalonia, Spain) in September 2022, provided to ENETWILD with the opportunity to meet in‐person for the first time after 2.5 years, and meet the international scientific community with expertise on wild suids and other ungulates. T...

It is essential to provide tools to wildlife professionals and researchers in order to facilitate data collection on wildlife density estimation following standardized protocols in the field. This is relevant for efficient harmonized data management systems, from the field to final reporting. Our main objective was to facilitate the collection of i...

Background To control the transmission of relevant shared diseases, such as animal tuberculosis (TB) and African swine fever (ASF), it is essential to reduce the risk of interaction between livestock and wild ungulates. In Eastern and Central Europe, the current spread of ASF virus affecting wild boar and domestic pigs (especially those raised outd...

Human–wildlife conflicts are a growing problem in Northern Hemisphere where wild ungulates are one of the taxonomic groups most frequently involved. To mitigate these conflicts, it is essential to develop preventive actions able to avoid encounters between wildlife and human (activities). We here employed photo-trapping to evaluate the behaviour of...

BACKGROUND Fences are one of the most widespread manmade features in nature, constituting an artificial limitation to the movement of wildlife. To date, their effects on wildlife behavior have been understudied but this knowledge is required to design effective management procedures. Using 21 GPS‐monitored wild boar, we evaluated the permeability o...

This book, aimed at professionals in the sector such as veterinarians, ranchers or wildlife managers, is the second volume of a manual that lists and details the different sources of risk of tuberculosis for wildlife. In each section, the risk is described, its epidemiological role is detailed and control measures are proposed, providing a complete...

The ubiquitous wild boar is causing diverse and growing conflicts of socio-ecological and economic relevance worldwide. For that reason, knowledge of its spatial ecology is crucial to designing effective management programmes. But this knowledge is scarce in Mediterranean areas with mixed land uses. We describe the spatial ecology and habitat selec...

The knowledge regarding the spatial ecology of red deer (Cervus elaphus) in different environments is crucial if effective management actions are to be designed. However, this knowledge continues to be scarce in the complex contexts of mixed land use and management circumstances. This study describes the spatial ecology of red deer monitored using...

Camera trapping use has increased significantly in ecological studies in recent decades due to its ability to register information about cryptic and/or elusive species and, more recently, due to its ability to derive population parameters, such as population abundance or density. For these latter applications, camera traps set in a regular grid pat...

The effective management of shared pathogens between wild ungulates and livestock requires the understanding of the processes of interaction between them. In this work we studied the interspecific frequency of interaction (ifreq) and its spatio-temporal pattern between wild and domestic ungulates that coexist in free-ranging farms. For this purpose...

Hunting statistics can be suitable to determine wild boar density estimates if a calibration with an accepted rigorous method is performed. Here, densities calculated from drive counts during collective drive hunting activities are compared against density values calculated by camera trapping using the random encounter method. For this purpose, we...

Knowledge about distribution and abundance of European wild mammals is essential for their conservation and management. ENETWILD consortium (www.enetwild.com) has been collecting presence and abundance data of wild boar, which will be completed with other wild mammals in the next years. Using the wild boar as a example, we develop a general framewo...

Abstract Species distribution and population abundance are keystone patterns in ecology, and currently also in epidemiology. The aggregation of individuals in the population is closely related to distribution and abundance, but they are not totally equivalent patterns. Despite the great efforts made in recent decades to harmonise the sampling proto...