Survival of Eurasian lynx in the human-dominated landscape of Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60460709:41320/25:103782 RIV/62156489:43210/25:43926394 RIV/62156489:43410/25:43926394
Result on the web
<a href="https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14439" target="_blank" >https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14439</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14439" target="_blank" >10.1111/cobi.14439</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Survival of Eurasian lynx in the human-dominated landscape of Europe
Original language description
Survival and cause-specific mortality rates are vital for evidence-based population forecasting and conservation, particularly for large carnivores, whose populations are often vulnerable to human-caused mortalities. It is therefore important to know the relationship between anthropogenic and natural mortality causes to evaluate whether they are additive or compensatory. Further, the relation between survival and environmental covariates could reveal whether specific landscape characteristics influence demographic performance. We used telemetry data on 681 Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), a model apex predator with large spatial requirements, that were tracked across their European distribution. Through time-to-event analyses, we sought to determine the variables associated with differences in their survival. Illegal killing was the main cause of mortality (33.8%), and mortality rates were similar in protected and hunted populations (8.6% and 7.0% per year, respectively). Survival varied greatly across populations (70-95% per year). Across all study sites, higher hunting and anthropogenic mortality rates were partially compensated by lower rates of other mortality causes but not by natural mortality alone. Variation in survival depended on sex (female survival was 1.5 times greater than male survival) and seasonality (highest risk during hunting season and winter), and lower survival rates were correlated with higher human modification of landscapes at both coarse (home range composition) and fine (habitat use within home range) scales. Some variation in survival was driven by unobserved factors, which, given the high rates of human-caused mortalities, including illegal killing, are of foremost concern. Due to the low natural mortality rates in protected and hunted populations, we conclude that anthropogenic causes of mortality are likely close to additive, such that maintaining or increasing refuge habitat with little human disturbance is critical to lynx conservation.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Conservation Biology
ISSN
0888-8892
e-ISSN
1523-1739
Volume of the periodical
39
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
e14439
UT code for WoS article
001395611600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85214873251