Ecological and intrinsic drivers of foraging parameters ofEurasian lynx at a continental scale

• Main Authors: Oliveira, Teresa, Mattisson, Jenny, Vogt, Kristina, Linnell, John, Odden, John, Oeser, Julian, Premier, Joseph, Rodríguez Recio, Maríano, Belotti, Elisa, Krofel, Miha
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: British Ecological Society 2024
• Subjects: 591.53; 599.742.75(4); Eurasian lynx; Europe; Foraging; Handling time; Human impact; Inter-kill interval; Prey availability; Scavengers; Zoología; Ecología (Biología); Mamíferos; 2401 Biología Animal (Zoología); 2401.06 Ecología Animal; 2401.18 Mamíferos; Luchs; Lynx; Lynx lynx lynx
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116605; https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.14228

This study was financed by the European Commission (project LIFE Lynx LIFE16 NAT/SL/000634 and LIFE Luchs LIFE13 NAT/DE/000755); by the Research Council of Norway (Norges Forskningsråd (grants no. 251112 and 281092), NINA basic funding project no. 160022/F40), the Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management (Miljødirektoratet), the Nature Protection Division of the County Governor's Office for Innlandet, Viken, Vestfold and Telemark, & Trøndelag County; by the charity foundation from Liechtenstein, hunting inspectorate of the Canton of Bern, Stotzer-Kästli-Stiftung, Zigerli-Hegi-Stiftung, Haldimann-Stiftung, Zürcher Tierschutz, Temperatio-Stiftung, Karl Mayer Stiftung, Stiftung Ormella; by the Ministry of the Environment of the Slovak Republic. Data curation was supported by the Regina Bauer Stiftung. TO was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, grant no. SFRH/BD/144110/2019). MKr was supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency (grants no. N1-0163 and J1-50013). JKu was supported by Bernd Thies Foundation, Plitvice Lakes NP and Public Institution ‘Priroda’. MKut and MD were supported by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic (Project No. CZ.05.4.27/0.0/0.0/20_139/0012815), by the SaveGREEN project supported by Interreg Danube Transnational Programme (No. DTP3-314-2.3), the Dean's office of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno and Training Forest Enterprise Masaryk Forest Křtiny. JP was supported by a grant from the Riepe Foundation. The estimation of foraging parameters is fundamental for understanding predator ecology. Predation and feeding can vary with multiple factors, such as prey availability, presence of kleptoparasites and human disturbance. However, our knowledge is mostly limited to local scales, which prevents studying effects of environmental factors across larger ecological gradients. Here, we compared inter-kill intervals and handling times of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) across a large latitudinal ...