JOURNAL ARTICLES
Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore. Oeser J, Heurich M, Kramer-Schadt S, Andrén H, Bagrade G, Belotti E, Bufka L, Breitenmoser-Würsten C, Duľa M, Fuxjäger C, Gomerčić T. 2022
ABSTRACT
Context
Behavioral adjustments by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people in shared landscapes. Landscape composition might be a key factor determining how large carnivores can adapt to occurring alongside humans, yet broad-scale analyses investigating adjustments of habitat
use across large gradients of human pressure and landscape composition are lacking.
Objectives
Here, we investigate adjustments in habitat use by Eurasian lynx (
Lynx lynx) in response to varying availability of refuge habitats (i.e., forests and rugged terrain) and human landscape modication.
Methods
We used a large tracking dataset including 434 individuals from seven populations to analyze variation in lynx’ use of refuge habitats and landscape modication at a continental scale.
Results
We found that lynx use refuge habitats more intensively with increasing landscape modication, selecting forests most strongly in otherwise open landscapes and rugged terrain in mountainous regions. Higher forest availability enabled lynx to place their home ranges in more human-modied landscapes. Human pressure and refuge habitat availability also shaped temporal patterns of lynx habitat use, affecting daytime-nighttime differences in refuge habitat use, as well as females’ association with human-modied habitats during the rst months after kittens are born.
Conclusions
Our ndings suggest a remarkable adaptive capacity of lynx towards human pressure and underline the importance of refuge habitats for enabling coexistence between large carnivores and people. More broadly, we highlight that the composition of landscapes determines how large carnivores can adapt to human pressure, and that both factors interact in shaping large carnivore habitat use and distributions at broad scales
A cat in paradise: hunting and feeding behaviour of Eurasian lynx among abundant naive prey M Duľa, M Krofel – Mammalian Biology, 2020 Sep
Genomic patterns in the widespread Eurasian lynx shaped by Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations and anthropogenic impacts. Lucena‐Perez M, Marmesat E, Kleinman‐Ruiz D, Martínez‐Cruz B, Węcek K, Saveljev AP, Seryodkin IV, Okhlopkov I, Dvornikov MG, Ozolins J, Galsandorj N. Molecular ecology. 2020 Feb
(Range of conservation statuses, climatic zones and subspecies across Eurasia)
Evaluating habitat suitability and connectivity for a recolonizing large carnivore. Hemmingmoore H, Aronsson M, Åkesson M, Persson J, Andrén H. Biological Conservation. 2020 Feb
(Sweden)
First confirmed case of Alaria alata mesocercaria in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) hunted in Latvia. Ozoliņa Z, Bagrade G, Deksne G. Parasitology Research. 2020 Feb
(Latvia)
Relationships Between Livestock Damages and Large Carnivore Densities in Sweden. Dalerum F, Selby LO, Pirk CW. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2020 Jan
(Sweden)
Fear of the dark? Contrasting impacts of humans vs lynx on diel activity of roe deer across Europe. Bonnot NC, Couriot O, Berger A, Cagnacci F, Ciuti S, De Groeve J, Gehr B, Heurich M, Kjellander P, Kröschel M, Morellet N. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2019 Dec
(Europe)
Eurasian lynx fitness shows little variation across Scandinavian human-dominated landscapes. López-Bao JV, Aronsson M, Linnell JD, Odden J, Persson J, Andrén H. Scientific reports. 2019 Jun
(south-central Scandinavian Peninsula, located in Sweden and Norway)
Report on analysis of genetic samples collected in 2017–2018 on brown bears (Ursus arctos), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) and grey wolf (Canis lupus) in a pilot area in Southern Carpathians, Romania. Skrbinšek, T., Jelenčič, M., Boljte, B., Konec, M., Erich, M., Iosif, R., Moza, I. and Promberger, B., 2019
(Romania)
Shadowed by the ghost: the Eurasian lynx in Nepal. NARESH KUSI PRAJWOL MANANDHAR, SAMUNDRA AMBUHANG SUBBA, KANCHAN THAPA, KAMAL THAPA, BIKRAM SHRESTHA, NARENDRA MAN BABU PRADHAN, MA-HESWAR DHAKAL, NURENDRA ARYAL AND GERALDINE WERHAHN. Cat News 2018
(Nepal)
Eurasian lynx and Pallas’s cat in Dolpa district of Nepal: genetics, distribution and diet. Geraldine Werhahn, Naresh KusI, DIbesh Karmacharya, Adarh man Sherchan, Helen Sen… CATnews Spring 2018
(Nepal)
Biomedical protocols for free-ranging brown bears, wolves, wolverines and lynx. Arnemo, J.M. and Evans, A., 2017
(Norway, Scandinavia)
First recorded case of tiger killing Eurasian lynx. Petrunenko YK, Polkovnikov IL, Gilbert M, Miquelle DG. European journal of wildlife research. 2016 Jun
(Bastak Nature Reserve, Russia)
Border security fencing and wildlife: the end of the transboundary paradigm in Eurasia?. Linnell JD, Trouwborst A, Boitani L, Kaczensky P, Huber D, Reljic S, Kusak J, Majic A, Skrbinsek T, Potocnik H, Hayward MW. PLoS Biology. 2016 Jun
(Solvania, Croatia)
Sustainably harvesting a large carnivore? Development of Eurasian lynx populations in Norway during 160 years of shifting policy. Linnell JD, Broseth H, Odden J, Nilsen EB. Environmental management. 2010 May
(Norway)
Lynx acceptance in Poland, Lithuania, and Estonia. Balčiauskas L, Kazlauskas M, Randveer T. Estonian Journal of Ecology. 2010 Mar
(Baltics)
Spatial interactions between grey wolves and Eurasian lynx in Białowieża Primeval Forest, Schmidt K, Jędrzejewski W, Okarma H, Kowalczyk R. Poland. Ecological Research. 2009 Jan
(Białowieża Primeval Forest, Poland)
Conflicts between lynx, other large carnivores, and humans in Macedonia and Albania. In Proceedings of the III congress of ecologists of the Republic of Macedonia with international participation (06–09.10. 2007) (pp. 257-264). Keçi, E., Trajçe, A., Mersini, K., Bego, F., Ivanov, G., Melovski, D., Stojanov, A., Breitenmoser, U., VonArx, M., Schwaderer, G. and Spangenberg, A., 2008
(Macedonia, Albania)
Checklist of mammals in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve. Murdoch JD, Munkhzul T, Amgalanbaatar S, Reading RP. Mongolian Journal of Biological Sciences. 2006 Dec
(Ikh Nart Reserve, Mongolia)
Survival rates and causes of mortality in Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in multi-use landscapes. Andrén H, Linnell JD, Liberg O, Andersen R, Danell A, Karlsson J, Odden J, Moa PF, Ahlqvist P, Kvam T, Franzén R. Biological conservation. 2006 Jul
(Scandinavia)
Lynx (Lynx lynx) and wolf (Canis lupus) in the Baltic region: Diets, helminth parasites and genetic variation. Valdmann, H., 2006
(Estonia, Latvia)
Helminth fauna of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Estonia. Valdmann H, Moks E, Talvik H. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 2004 Apr
(Estonia)