Military training areas facilitate the recolonization of wolves in Germany

• Published in: Conservation Letters
• Main Authors: Reinhardt, Ilka, Kluth, Gesa, Nowak, Carsten, Szentiks, Claudia A., Krone, Oliver, Ansorge, Hermann, Mueller, Thomas
• Other Authors: Robert Bosch Stiftung
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Stepping Stones; Canis lupus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/conl.12635; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fconl.12635; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/conl.12635; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/conl.12635

Abstract Wolves ( Canis lupus ) are currently showing a remarkable comeback in the highly fragmented cultural landscapes of Germany. We here show that wolf numbers increased exponentially between 2000 and 2015 with an annual increase of about 36%. We demonstrate that the first territories in each ne...