Aim The recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe has been explained as resulting from
a decrease in human persecution driven by widespread rural land abandonment, paralleled …

The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation.
Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ursus arctos), Eurasian lynx …

Literature on the wolf Canis lupus, brown bear Ursus arctos and lynx Lynx lynx is reviewed
to determine if sufficient semi‐natural habitat exists in the UK for a viable population of any …

Population dynamics and demography of the Wolf Canis lupus were studied in Bialowieza
Primeval Forest (BPF, 1250 km2), the best preserved mixed and deciduous forest in the …

Predation, one of the most dramatic interactions in animals' lives, has long fascinated
ecologists. This volume presents carnivores, raptors and their prey in the complicated net of …

Deleterious mutations continuously accumulate in populations, building up a burden that
can threaten their survival, particularly in small populations when inbreeding exposes …

Summary 1 Although many reintroduction schemes for the Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in
Germany have been discussed, the implications of connectivity between suitable patches …

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty
leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental …

Causes of mortality were described for 245 radio-marked Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in five
different Scandinavian study areas. Furthermore, the survival rates and the population …

Conservation biologists often must make management decisions based on little empirical
information. In Germany, biologists are concerned that the recovery and reintroduction of …