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6 summaries in Small Wildcat Biology on Eurasian lynx
Research overview: Eurasian lynx activity and home ranges
OverviewThis overview examines the activity and spatial ecology of the Eurasian lynx, drawn from extensive GPS-telemetry research. The species is largely crepuscular and nocturnal, maintaining very large home…
Research overview: Eurasian lynx distribution and recovery
OverviewThe Eurasian lynx is the largest of the lynxes and the most widely distributed, ranging across the forests of Europe, the Caucasus, and Siberia into central and eastern Asia. This overview compiles re…
Research overview: Eurasian lynx predation on roe deer
OverviewAcross much of its range the Eurasian lynx is a specialist predator of small ungulates, and this overview synthesizes studies showing roe deer as the principal prey in Europe, supplemented by chamois,…
Research overview: Eurasian lynx recolonization and reintroduction in Europe
OverviewThe return of the Eurasian lynx to parts of western and central Europe, through both natural recolonization and deliberate reintroduction, is a notable conservation story, and this overview reviews it…
Research overview: comparative ecology of the four lynx species
OverviewThis overview compares the four lynx species, the Eurasian, Canada, Iberian, and the bobcat, highlighting how a shared body plan has diversified across habitats and prey. All share short tails, ear tu…
Research synthesis: conservation status across the lynx species
ReviewThis synthesis reviews the conservation standing of the lynxes as a group, which spans nearly the full range of extinction risk. The bobcat and Eurasian lynx are broadly secure, the latter recovering…