Figure 1

Iberian hare population trends. (A) Iberian hare abundance index (AI: number of hares hunted/number of hunting licences ± standard error) per year from 1974 to 2019. (B) Iberian hare abundance index during the study period (1997 to 2019). Brown bars indicate years when vole outbreaks were detected. Note that 1997 is the first year with officially declared human case of tularemia in the region.