Abstract 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 boar’s Sus scrofa diet factors driving consumption have been little investigated. A genetic metabarcoding approach was used on 80 boar faeces collected from four hunting estates devoted to during ...

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Taxes on inheritances may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Because firm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferred family businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint. The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost on the economy if firm continuation by less able heirs prevents entry into entrepreneurship. Here...

estate. Soon, however, after her return home the child began to look ill again and to complain of pain in her belly. Her mother then noticed a bulging in her right side, and an apothecary employed on some neighbouring estates was called in who, after treating the child for some days for hepatitis, advised her beiug brought into Ootacamund for further treatment, " as an abscess had formed on the...

de las Padres. The aspect of this spot is indescribably beautiful. The surrounding hills are clothed in a lovely verdure of flowery luxuriance, and ample fields produce arrow-root, yucas, Indian corn, sugar cane, and all sorts of savoury and refreshing fruit matured under a uniformly clear and serene sky. When it rains in the province, the river Chiri overflows its banks, and spreads out into s...