Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe
Large carnivores promote crucial ecosystem processes but are increasingly threatened by human persecution and habitat destruction. Successful conservation of this guild requires information on long-term population dynamics obtained through demographic surveys. We used camera traps to monitor Eurasia...
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ftleibnizopen:oai:oai.leibnizopen.de:9jA474cBdbrxVwz6Nyp0 2023-06-11T04:17:39+02:00 Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe Palmero, Stefano Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Gahbauer, Martin Heibl, Christoph Premier, Joe Weingarth-Dachs, Kirsten Heurich, Marco 2021 https://repository.publisso.de/resource/frl:6434297 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99337-2 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8494906/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-99337-2#Sec21 eng eng CC BY 4.0 Scientific reports, 11(1):19868 Ecology Zoology 2021 ftleibnizopen https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99337-2 2023-05-07T23:14:32Z Large carnivores promote crucial ecosystem processes but are increasingly threatened by human persecution and habitat destruction. Successful conservation of this guild requires information on long-term population dynamics obtained through demographic surveys. We used camera traps to monitor Eurasian lynx between 2009 and 2018 in a strictly protected area in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, located in the core of the distribution of the Bohemian–Bavarian–Austrian lynx population. Thereby, we estimated sex-specific demographic parameters using spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models. Over 48,677 trap nights, we detected 65 unique lynx individuals. Density increased from 0.69 to 1.33 and from 1.09 to 2.35 individuals/100 km2 for open and closed population SCR models, respectively, with corresponding positive population growth rates (mean = 1.06). Estimated yearly sex-specific survival probabilities for the entire monitoring period were high (females 82%, males 90%) and per capita recruitment rate was low (females 12%, males 9%), indicating a low yearly population turnover. We ascertained an average number of recruits of 1.97 and a generation time of 2.64 years when considering resident reproducing females. We confirmed that reproduction in the study area took place successfully every year. Despite the overall increase in local lynx densities, the number of detected family groups remained constant throughout the study period. These results indicated that the strictly protected study area acts as a source for the multi-use landscapes in its surroundings. In this first open population SCR study on lynx, we provide sex-specific demographic parameters that are fundamental information for lynx management in the study area as well as in similar contexts Europe-wide. Other/Unknown Material Lynx Lynx lynx lynx LeibnizOpen (The Leibniz Association) Scientific Reports 11 1 |
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Large carnivores promote crucial ecosystem processes but are increasingly threatened by human persecution and habitat destruction. Successful conservation of this guild requires information on long-term population dynamics obtained through demographic surveys. We used camera traps to monitor Eurasian lynx between 2009 and 2018 in a strictly protected area in the Bohemian Forest Ecosystem, located in the core of the distribution of the Bohemian–Bavarian–Austrian lynx population. Thereby, we estimated sex-specific demographic parameters using spatial capture–recapture (SCR) models. Over 48,677 trap nights, we detected 65 unique lynx individuals. Density increased from 0.69 to 1.33 and from 1.09 to 2.35 individuals/100 km2 for open and closed population SCR models, respectively, with corresponding positive population growth rates (mean = 1.06). Estimated yearly sex-specific survival probabilities for the entire monitoring period were high (females 82%, males 90%) and per capita recruitment rate was low (females 12%, males 9%), indicating a low yearly population turnover. We ascertained an average number of recruits of 1.97 and a generation time of 2.64 years when considering resident reproducing females. We confirmed that reproduction in the study area took place successfully every year. Despite the overall increase in local lynx densities, the number of detected family groups remained constant throughout the study period. These results indicated that the strictly protected study area acts as a source for the multi-use landscapes in its surroundings. In this first open population SCR study on lynx, we provide sex-specific demographic parameters that are fundamental information for lynx management in the study area as well as in similar contexts Europe-wide. |
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Palmero, Stefano Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Gahbauer, Martin Heibl, Christoph Premier, Joe Weingarth-Dachs, Kirsten Heurich, Marco |
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Palmero, Stefano Belotti, Elisa Bufka, Luděk Gahbauer, Martin Heibl, Christoph Premier, Joe Weingarth-Dachs, Kirsten Heurich, Marco |
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Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe |
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Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe |
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Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe |
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Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe |
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Demography of a Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in Central Europe |
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demography of a eurasian lynx (lynx lynx) population within a strictly protected area in central europe |
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