This work was supported by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme for RTD through project HUNT (212160, FP7-ENV-2007- 1), the Consejerı´a de Agricultura of JCCM through project ‘‘Efecto del medio natural, las pra´cticas agrı´colas, ganaderas y de gestio´n cinege´ tica sobre las poblaciones de caza menor en los cotos pertenecientes a la Asociacio´n de cotos de caza Sierra de Alcaraz-Campo de Montiel’’, and the Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologı´a (CGL2008-04282/BOS). S. Dı´az-Ferna´ndez had a predoctoral grant funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and by JCCM (Operational Programme PRINCET 2005-2010). F. Casas was supported by a JAE-Doc contract funded by the ESF. Currently, M. Martinez-Haro is supported by a postdoctoral grant (Ref: SFRH/BPD/73890/2010) funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), the ESF and POPH programme