Cafiso, Alessandra http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8739-3422
Castelli, Michele http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2177-5772
Tedesco, Perla http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8962-9929
Poglayen, Giovanni http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6598-3034
Pederzoli, Clelia Buccheri
Robetto, Serena http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6667-3425
Orusa, Riccardo
Corlatti, Luca http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2706-3875
Bazzocchi, Chiara http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6744-2178
Luzzago, Camilla http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9236-2049
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (PRIN_MIUR2012 code 2012A4F828)
Università degli Studi di Milano
Article History
Received: 4 November 2022
Accepted: 20 December 2022
First Online: 14 January 2023
Declarations
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: Animals were not sacrificed for research purposes specific to this study. No ethical approval was required, and ethical statement is not applicable as sample collection from animals has been gathered after animals were hunted according to Italian national hunting law 157/1992 or culled for management purposes, according to the official culling plan to reduce red deer density that has been authorized by Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale (ISPRA), the Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Prot. 48585/T-A25-Ispra), in the Lombardy sector of the Stelvio National Park starting from 2011.
: Not applicable.
: All the authors provided their consent for the publication of this manuscript.
: The authors declare no competing interests.