How to Choose? Comparing Different Methods to Count Wolf Packs in a Protected Area of the Northern Apennines.

ABSTRACT: Despite a natural rewilding process that caused wolf populations in Europe to increase and expand in the last years, human-wolf conflicts still persist, threatening the long-term wolf presence in both anthropic and natural areas. Conservation management strategies should be carefully designed on updated population data and planned on a wide scale. Unfortunately, reliable ecological data are difficult and expensive to obtain and often hardly comparable through time or among different areas, especially because of different sampling designs. In order to assess the performance of different methods to estimate wolf (Canis lupus L.) abundance and distribution in southern Europe, we simultaneously applied three techniques: wolf howling, camera trapping and non-invasive genetic sampling in

SUBMITTER: Dissegna A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10137897 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature