Publications

a regional inventory and monitoring setup to evaluate bark peeling damage by red deer (cervus elaphus) in coniferous plantations in southern belgium.	bark peeling by red deer (cervus elaphus l.) has become a serious issue for productive forests in western europe. the damage is particularly severe on species such as spruce, as these become vulnerable to fungus attacks that result in considerably depreciated timber. this article presents a monitoring setup for recent bark peeling damage in spruce plantings in wallonia (southern part of belgium). this setup implies to collect data annually from a survey involving cluster sampling. it has been em ...	2010	21188508
comparative landscape genetic analyses show a belgian motorway to be a gene flow barrier for red deer (cervus elaphus), but not wild boars (sus scrofa).	while motorways are often assumed to influence the movement behaviour of large mammals, there are surprisingly few studies that show an influence of these linear structures on the genetic make-up of wild ungulate populations. here, we analyse the spatial genetic structure of red deer (cervus elaphus) and wild boars (sus scrofa) along a stretch of motorway in the walloon part of belgium. altogether, 876 red deer were genotyped at 13 microsatellite loci, and 325 wild boars at 14 loci. in the case ...	2012	22607276