Aim The recent recovery of large carnivores in Europe has been explained as resulting from
a decrease in human persecution driven by widespread rural land abandonment, paralleled …

Large carnivores often inhabit human-dominated landscapes, where avoidance of
anthropogenic risks can constrain their use of space and time. Large carnivore conservation …

Molecular methods are routinely used to estimate the effective size of populations (N e).
However, underlying model assumptions are frequently violated to an unknown extent …

Local extinction and recolonization events can shape genetic structure of subdivided animal
populations. The gray wolf (Canis lupus) was extirpated from most of Europe, but recently …

Glacial and interglacial periods throughout the Pleistocene have been substantial drivers of
change in species distributions. Earlier analyses suggested that modern grey wolves (Canis …

Long-term monitoring studies assessing wolf population dynamics are scarce, particularly in
human-dominated landscapes of southern Europe. In this work, we estimate wolf …

Intra-and inter-specific gene flow are natural evolutionary processes. However, human-
induced hybridization is a global conservation concern across taxa, and the development of …

The gray wolf (Canis lupus) population on the Iberian Peninsula was the largest in western
and central Europe during most of the 20th century, with its size apparently never under a …

Inbreeding can reduce offspring fitness and has substantial implications for the genetic
diversity and long-term viability of populations. In social cooperative canids, inbreeding is …

Historical information is useful to set conservation baselines and, in turn, to inform the legal
status of species and habitats. The conservation value of historic data has been …