A century ago, overhunting had reduced Eurasian beaver Castor fiber populations to c. 1200
animals in scattered refugia from France to Mongolia. Reintroductions and natural spread …

Abstract In November 2016, the Scottish Government announced that they were minded to
allow the two'trial'reintroduced populations of Eurasian beaver Castor fiber to remain in …

A fter being reduced to about 1,200 anim als in eight isolated populations by the beginning
of the 20th century, Eurasian beavers (Castor fiber) have powerfully recovered in range and …

Background As increasingly fragmented and isolated populations of threatened species
become subjected to climate change, invasive species and other stressors, there is an …

Phylogeographical studies are typically based on haplotype data, occasionally on nuclear
markers such as microsatellites, but rarely combine both. This is unfortunate because the …

Exact location and number of glacial refugia still remain unclear for many European cold‐
blooded terrestrial vertebrates. We performed a fine‐scaled multilocus phylogeographic …

Abstract The Eurasian beaver Castor fiber, formerly occurred across the Palaearctic, but was
nearly eradicated in the 19th century. Due to reintroductions in the 20th century, beaver …

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes, coding molecules which play an important
role in immune response, are the most polymorphic genes known in vertebrates. However …

Background The accurate delimitation of species is essential to numerous areas of
biological research. An unbiased assessment of the diversity, including the cryptic diversity …

The Eurasian beaver experienced a severe reduction in its distribution during the past
centuries as a consequence of intensive hunting by humans. However, as a result of human …