M. Duarte, C. Carvalho, F. A. Santos, J. Monteiro, Madalena Monteiro, P. Carvalho, P. Mendonça, Patrícia Tavares Santos, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo
{"title":"The Health and Future of the Six Hare Species in Europe: A Closer Look at the Iberian Hare","authors":"M. Duarte, C. Carvalho, F. A. Santos, J. Monteiro, Madalena Monteiro, P. Carvalho, P. Mendonça, Patrícia Tavares Santos, Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.91876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.91876","url":null,"abstract":"Although there are around 40 species of hares in the world divided into three different genera ( Lepus , Caprolagus , and Pronolagus ), only six species inhabit Europe, all belonging to genus Lepus . The conservation status of these six species was recently revised in the International Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Lepus castroviejoi and L. corsicanus were attributed the status of “vulnerable”. The other four species, L. europaeus , L. timidus , L. capensis , and L. granatensis , were considered of “least concern” although a declining trend was recognized for the last two species’ wild populations. Here we review the major threats to the hare species in Europe, with emphasis on infectious diseases. Furthermore, we present the sanitary data regarding the Iberian hare populations from Portugal, which were severely affected by the emergence of a naturally occur-ring recombinant myxoma virus (MYXV), first reported in mid-2018. The recent detection in 2019 of a leporid herpesvirus (LeHV-5), which pathogenicity appears to be exacerbated in MYXV-infected hares, brings additional concerns to the health and conservation of the Iberian hare.","PeriodicalId":414063,"journal":{"name":"Lagomorpha Characteristics [Working Title]","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121713808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Profitability in Rabbit Breeding","authors":"M. Pascual, E. A. Gómez","doi":"10.5772/intechopen.93260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.93260","url":null,"abstract":"Rabbit production must be sustainable. One of the main bases of this sustainability is the profitability of the farms, in which improvement is achieved through the technical and economic management. These managements imply collecting production and economic data, calculating indexes, comparing results with those obtained in other farms, making decisions, and evaluating the consequences of changes. The chapter details the different steps to follow to develop the technical and economic management of the rabbit farms to improve their profitability. Templates to collect data, formulae to obtain different technical and economic indexes, results obtained in different producing countries, and possible techniques to improve profitability are shown.","PeriodicalId":414063,"journal":{"name":"Lagomorpha Characteristics [Working Title]","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129508543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}