The conservation of large carnivores is a formidable challenge for biodiversity conservation.
Using a data set on the past and current status of brown bears (Ursus arctos), Eurasian lynx (…

The Fifth World Parks Congress in Durban, South Africa, announced in September 2003 that
the global network of protected areas now covers 11.5% of the planet's land surface 1 . This …

… Luigi Boitani is a professor of vertebrate zoology and animal ecology at the University of
Rome. He is author of Dalla parte del lupo, coauthor of Simon and Schuster's Guide to Mammals…

Global positioning system (GPS) telemetry technology allows us to monitor and to map the
details of animal movement, securing vast quantities of such data even for highly cryptic …

Data on the occurrence of species are widely used to inform the design of reserve networks.
These data contain commission errors (when a species is mistakenly thought to be present) …

THE FIRST REAL BEGINNING to our understanding of wolf social ecology came from wolf
2204 on 23 May 1972. State depredation control trapper Lawrence Waino, of Duluth, …

The establishment of ecological networks (ENs) has been proposed as an ideal way to
counteract the increasing fragmentation of natural ecosystems and as a necessary complement …

Because of the large scales at which large carnivores live, their conservation cannot occur
only within protected areas. They must therefore be conserved within multi-use landscapes …

Knowledge of mammalian diversity is still surprisingly disparate, both regionally and
taxonomically. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the conservation status and …

Land-use/land-cover change is the most important factor in causing biodiversity loss. The
Mediterranean region has been affected by antropic disturbance for thousands of years, and is, …