Lutra 59(1-2)_Editorial_2016

A mammal atlas for the Anthropocene

This issue of Lutra is arriving somewhat late. This year the editorial board decided to issue only one, extra-large, volume. Over the last two years many people in our pool of contributors have invested much of their time and energy in preparing the third Dutch mammal atlas. Half of Lutra’s editorial board has also been involved in this endeavour and we are proud to see this project has finally come to fruition.

This issue of Lutra offers a thorough review of the mammal atlas, written in Dutch by Jeroen van der Kooij. This is not the only Dutch language paper in this issue. Last year the editor- in-chief announced a change in our policy, established in 2011, to only accept papers written in English. Since then we have started accepting papers in Dutch again. The paper by Bos et al. in this issue, about the claimed influence of foot-and-mouth-disease on the control of muskrat, was the first recent contribution in Dutch to be accepted. .....