APPLICATION OF ZOOLOGICAL RESEARCH RESULTS IN ORDER TO INCREASE BIODIVERSITY IN THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE

As early as in the eighties fears arose in Austria that the population of small game is constantly diminishing, a fact which could not be su fficiently explained by natural population dynamic processes. In sever al territories which had in former times been intensively inhabited by small game, the population density reached such a low level already s ome years ago so that these areas cannot be used for hunting any more.