Capreolus_PNSG

We aim to determine whether livestock affect roe deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758) by reducing habitat quality and increasing the probability of infection by shared parasites. We measured non-invasive fecal cortisol metabolites as an indicator of habitat quality and also lung nematode larvae burden of the Dictyocaulus genus. For this, a total of 120 fresh fecal samples of roe deer were collected from a total number of eight plots with an area ranging 100 to 168 ha (139±8.4 ha), 30 in pine with livestock 30 in pine without livestock and the same for oak forest, from October 2009 to March 2010.