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

Highlights•Successful conservation often requires collaboration across international
boundaries.•A wide range of strategies have been used to advance cross-boundary …

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 …

Large carnivores can either directly influence ungulate populations or indirectly affect their
behaviour. Knowledge from European systems, in contrast to North American systems, on …

Large 'apex'predators influence ecosystems in profound ways, by limiting the density of their
prey and controlling smaller 'mesopredators'. The loss of apex predators from much of their …

The term 'synurbic'is sometimes used within the more recent urban ecology literature to refer
to a species that colonises or is found within urban ecosystems, but this is too simplistic an …

Understanding the population dynamics of top‐predators is essential to assess their impact
on ecosystems and to guide their management. Key to this understanding is identifying the …

Thin on the Ground: Neandertal Biology, Archeology and Ecology synthesizes the current
knowledge about our sister species the Neandertals, combining data from a variety of …

Broad scale population estimates of declining species are desired for conservation efforts.
However, for many secretive species including large carnivores, such estimates are often …

Aim We aimed to describe the large‐scale patterns in population density of roe deer
Caprelous capreolus in Europe and to determine the factors shaping variation in their …