Dispersal is a key demographic process involving three stages: emigration, transience and
settlement; each of which is influenced by individual, social and environmental …

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 …

Following protection measures implemented since the 1970s, large carnivores are currently
increasing in number and returning to areas from which they were absent for decades or …

Managers of recovering wolf (Canis lupus) populations require knowledge regarding the
potential impacts caused by the loss of territorial, breeding wolves when devising plans that …

Thanks to protection by law and increasing habitat restoration, wolves (Canis lupus) are
currently re-colonizing Europe from the surviving populations of Russia, the Balkan …

Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Gray wolves (Canis lupus) were extirpated from the northern Rocky Mountains (NRM) of the
United States by the 1930s. Dispersing wolves from Canada naturally recolonized Montana …

Since the mid-twentieth century, under different management regimes (over 20 years of a
wolf control program followed by 20 years of trophy hunting), wolves were absent or rare in …

During the last few decades wolf management objectives have largely switched from state
sponsored control to conservation. Following this change in status there has been a …

Aim Limited population structure is predicted for vagile, generalist species, such as the grey
wolf (Canis lupus L.). Our aims were to study how genetic variability of grey wolves was …