Mediating colonial marginality and (minor) ity in Isabel de Guevara´s Carta a la Princesa Doña Juana = Mediando a marginalidade colonial e a (menor) idade na Carta a la Pincesa Doña Juana de Isabel de Guevara = Mediando la marginalidad colonial y la (poca) edad en la Carta a la Princesa Doña Juana de Isabel de Guevara

Escrito em 1556 por um dos participantes da conquista e colonização do Rio da Prata, a carta de Isabel de Guevara para a princesa Juana é um testemunho crucial de seu tempo. O valor desse documento vem da condição pessoal do autor, definida como testemunha ocular dos fatos descritos. É dessa maneira que ela estabelece a verossimilitude da narração baseada no discurso jurídico. Esse artigo busca interrogar as construções binarias de colonial/imperial, margem/centro e local/global, a partir de um exame da carta de Isabel de Guevara em um contexto hispano-americano mais ampl

Occupancy dynamics of wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in the coastal dunes of the Netherlands with imperfect detection

Context: Wild rabbits are considered a key species in the coastal dunes of the Netherlands, but populations have collapsed as a result of viral diseases. Aim: We studied to what extent population collapse led to local extinction and whether recolonisation of empty patches in the dunes happened. Methods: We investigated occupancy dynamics using data of 245 transects where rabbits were surveyed in 1984-2009. Dynamic site-occupancy models were used to analyse the data. These models adjust for imperfect detection to avoid bias in occupancy-trend estimation. Key results: The decline of the rabbit population has resulted in many local extinctions, especially in woodland and in the northern part of the coastal dunes. Most transects along grassland and mixed vegetation have recently been reoccupied. The recovery of woodland occupancy is slow, probably not because of limited dispersal capacity of rabbits, but because the quality of woodland habitats is poor. Detection probability of rabbits varied considerably over the years and among habitat types, indicating the necessity of taking detection into account. Rabbits were slightly better detected when it was cloudy, windy and rainy and when lunar phase approached new moon. Conclusion: Extinction and recolonisation of habitat patches varied considerably among habitat types. Implications: The current slow recolonisation hampers the recovery of rabbit populations in woodland habitats in the Dutch coastal dunes. Furthermore, monitoring rabbit occupancy should take imperfect detection into account to avoid biased results