Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: Large carnivores promote crucial ecosystem processes but are increasingly threatened by human persecution and habitat destruction. Successful conservation of this guild requires information on long-term population dynamics obtained through demographic surveys. We used camera traps to monitor Eurasian lynx between 2009 and 2018 in a strictly protected area in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, located in the core of the distribution of the Bohemian-Bavarian-Austrian lynx population. Thereby, we estimated sex-specific demographic parameters using spatial capture-recapture (SCR) models. Over 48,677 trap nights, we detected 65 unique lynx individuals. Density increased from 0.69 to 1.33 and from 1.09 to 2.35 individuals/100 km² for open and closed population SCR models, respectively, wi

SUBMITTER: Palmero S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8494906 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature