The diet strategy of the wolf in Europe is reviewed on the basis of 74 basic and 14 additional
literature sources. The comparative analysis reveals clear dependence on the latitude (and …

Domestic dogs diverged from grey wolves between 13 000 and 17 000 years ago when food
waste from human settlements provided a new niche. Compared to the carnivorous cat …

Background Inbreeding is among the major concerns in management of local livestock
populations. The effective population size of these populations tends to be small, which …

Wolf Canis lupus diet was studied by scat analysis in four main and several other locations
recolonised by this species in Central and Western Poland between 2002 and 2009. Wild …

Aim Understanding which human or environmental factors interact to enable or to limit the
occurrence and persistence of large carnivores in human‐dominated landscapes is an …

Genomic resources developed for domesticated species provide powerful tools for studying
the evolutionary history of their wild relatives. Here we use 61K single-nucleotide …

Carrion production is one of the most crucial yet neglected and understudied processes in
food webs and ecosystems. In this study, we performed a large-scale estimation of the …

We investigated the seasonal spatial and temporal co-occurrence of three carnivore species
in Liguria region (NW Italy)—the red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the European badger (Meles …

Historically wolves and humans have had a conflictive relationship which has driven the wolf
to extinction in some areas across Northern America and Europe. The last decades have …

Livestock depredation by large carnivores entails economic damage to farmers in many
parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to analyse and compare the costs of livestock …