Introduction The European large carnivore community is recently showing positive trends.
Beyond those, other species are expanding in Europe. In recent decades, the golden jackal …

Compared with the rapid expansion across Europe, the golden jackal colonization of Italy is
still limited and slow. No study focused on the habitat selection or landscape connectivity for …

Context Anthropogenic structures have considerable effects on ecosystems, disrupting
natural population processes and representing a serious risk in terms of vehicle collisions …

A rapid and extensive range expansion of the golden jackal has recently been documented
in continental Europe, raising new policy and legal questions and creating an urgent need to …

Background Two coexisting species with similar ecological requirements avoid or reduce
competition by changing the extent of their use of a given resource. Numerous coexistence …

The arrival of a new carnivore can have important effects on local communities. While
several effects of introduced alien species have been well documented, few studies have …

Species range expansions and (re) colonization of landscapes variously dominated by
humans occur on a global scale. Understanding such range enlargements and subsequent …