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Corrigendum: Correction to 'Wolf Reintroduction to Scotland: Public Attitudes andConsequences for Red Deer Management'Author(s): Erlend B. NilsenSource: Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol. 274, No. 1625 (Oct. 22, 2007), p. 2643Published by: The Royal SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25249376 .

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PROCEEDINGS -OF

THE ROYAL SOCIETY

Proc. R. Soc. B (2007) 274, 2643

doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.0878 Published online 14 August 2007

Corrigendum

Correction to 'Wolf reintroduction to Scotland: public attitudes and consequences for

red deer management'

In Nilsen et al (2007), we described the Deer Commis sion for Scotland (DCS) as having a stated management objective of six deer per square kilometre. This is however

not DCS policy, and we are sorry that we by mistake

indicated that to be the case. The number misleadingly attributed to the DCS was arrived at based on the

modelling work presented in Milner-Gulland et al

(2004), and by calculating the equilibrium density for a

given culling regime, and the association between

population density and population growth. More pre

cisely, the recommendation of the DCS used to be an annual harvest of approximately 14-16% of the red deer

population (fig. 5B in Milner-Gulland et al 2004), but due to the way deer were counted this corresponded to a

realized harvest rate of approximately 11 % (fig. 5 in Milner-Gulland et al 2004). To make these calculations,

data provided by DCS in 2001 were used, including DCS annual reports and data from a population of red deer

studied on the island of Rum off the West coast of Scotland

(Milner-Gulland et al 2004). This hind harvesting rate

was used in our work to calculate the economical

consequences of a potential wolf reintroduction.

On behalf of the authors,

Erlend B. Nilsen*

Faculty of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Hedmark

University College, Evenstad, 2480 Koppang, Norway *erlend.nilsen@sue. hihm.no

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Nilsen, E. B., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Schofield, L., Mysetrud,

A., Stenseth, N. C. & Coulson, T. 2007 Wolf reintroduc

tion to Scotland: public attitudes and consequences for

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(doi:10.1098/rspb.2006.0369)

Received 29 June 2007 2643 This journal is ? 2007 The Royal Society Accepted 20 July 2007

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