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Recent Sociocultural Changes Reverse the Long-Term Trend of Declining Habitat Availability for Large Wild Mammals in Europe
Aim: People have strongly influenced the biosphere for millennia, but how their increasing activities have shaped wildlife distribution …
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Same, but different: similar states of forest structure in temperate mountain regions of Europe despite different social-ecological forest disturbance regimes

Context: ecosystem services provided by mountain forests are critically linked to forest structure. Social-ecological disturbance …
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Risk response towards roads is consistent across multiple species in a temperate forest ecosystem
Roads can have diverse impacts on wildlife species, and while some species may adapt effectively, others may not. Studying multiple …
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Understanding habitat selection of range-expanding populations of large carnivores: 20 years of grey wolves (Canis lupus) recolonizing Germany
Aim: The non-stationarity in habitat selection of expanding populations poses a significant challenge for spatial forecasting. Focusing …
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Integrating animal tracking datasets at a continental scale for mapping Eurasian lynx habitat
Aim: The increasing availability of animal tracking datasets collected across many sites provides new opportunities to move beyond …
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Prerequisites for coexistence: human pressure and refuge habitat availability shape continental-scale habitat use patterns of a large carnivore
Adjustments in habitat use by large carnivores can be a key factor facilitating their coexistence with people in shared landscapes. …
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Making conventional farming more biodiversity friendly
We contend that it is conventional farming, not the conservation policies of the European Union, that is driving most of the …
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Opportunities and challenges for monitoring a recolonizing large herbivore using citizen science
Monitoring is a prerequisite for evidence-based wildlife management and conservation planning, yet conventional monitoring approaches …
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Protect old-growth forests in Europe now
Old-growth forests harbor high and unique biodiversity, store vast amounts of carbon, are important for water and nutrient cycling, and …
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Widespread habitat for Europe's largest herbivores, but poor connectivity limits recolonization
Several large-mammal species in Europe have recovered and recolonized parts of their historical ranges. Knowing where suitable habitat …
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