Long-distance Eurasian lynx dispersal – a prospect for connecting native and reintroduced populations in Central Europe

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/62156489:43210/21:43919596 RIV/62156489:43410/21:43919596 RIV/60460709:41320/21:89480 RIV/00216224:14310/21:00123667

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-021-01363-0" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10592-021-01363-0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10592-021-01363-0" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10592-021-01363-0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Long-distance Eurasian lynx dispersal – a prospect for connecting native and reintroduced populations in Central Europe

Original language description

Dispersal is a key process for the maintenance of intraspecific genetic diversity by ensuring gene flow within and between populations. Despite the ongoing expansion of large carnivores in Europe, lynx populations remain fragmented, isolated, and threatened by inbreeding and loss of genetic diversity. In the course of large carnivore monitoring in the Czech Republic, several biological samples of Eurasian lynx were collected outside the permanent occurrence of this species. Using microsatellite genotyping we identified these as four dispersing lynx males and applied multiple methods (Bayesian clustering in STRUCTURE, Principal Component Analysis (PCA), frequency-based method in GENECLASS2, and machine-learning framework in assignPOP) to assign them to possible source populations. For this we used genotypes from five European lynx populations: the Bohemian-Bavarian-Austrian (N = 36), Carpathian (N = 43), Scandinavian (N = 20), Baltic (N = 15), and Harz (N = 23) population. All four dispersers were successfully assigned to different source populations within Europe and each was recorded at a distance of more than 98 km from the edge of the distribution of the source population identified. Such movements are among the longest described for lynx in Central Europe to this point. The findings indicate the ability of lynx males to disperse in human-dominated landscape thus facilitation of these movements via creation and/or protection of potential migratory corridors together with protection of dispersing individuals should be of high importance in conservation of this iconic predator in Central Europe.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10619 - Biodiversity conservation

Project

<a href="/en/project/LTC20021" target="_blank" >LTC20021: Conservation genetics and genomics of vertebrate species in Central European region</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Conservation Genetics

ISSN

1566-0621

e-ISSN

1572-9737

Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

22

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

799-809

UT code for WoS article

000640468000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85104782182