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Jedrzejewski and colleagues studied Eurasian lynx predation in Poland's Bialowieza Forest, quantifying kill rates, prey selection and the lynx's contribution to roe deer and red deer mortality. They f…

Jedrzejewski, W., Schmidt, K., Milkowski, L., Jedrzejewska, B. & Okarma, H. · Acta Theriologica · 1993

This study documented that large carnivores, including the Eurasian lynx, have recovered and persist across much of Europe not in remote wilderness but in landscapes densely settled and used by people…

Chapron G, Kaczensky P, Linnell JDC, et al. · Science · 2014

This 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…

The Eurasian lynx ranges across forests of Europe and Asia, and its spotted coat enables individual identification, making it a frequent subject of camera-trap capture-recapture density studies. This…

The 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…

This overview synthesizes telemetry research on Eurasian lynx in the Alps and Scandinavia, where reintroduced and recovering populations have been studied to understand ranging, dispersal, and predati…

Across 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,…

An overview of the predator-prey relationship between Eurasian lynx and roe deer, the lynx's principal prey across much of temperate Europe. Lynx are efficient solitary ambush hunters of small ungulat…

The Eurasian lynx, a larger relative of the Canada lynx, occupies forests across Europe and Asia where its future is shaped by both climate and intensive land use. This overview surveys how habitat-su…

The 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…

The Eurasian lynx was exterminated from much of central and western Europe and has since been reintroduced to several regions, including the Alps, the Jura, and parts of central Europe. This overview…

This 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…

The Canada lynx and bobcat are North American members of the lynx lineage whose relationships and occasional hybridization illuminate felid speciation. This overview examines their divergence, with mo…

The Iberian lynx became the world's most endangered cat, falling to fewer than one hundred individuals before an intensive recovery effort. This overview surveys genomic studies revealing that the spe…

The lynx lineage comprises four species: the Eurasian lynx, the Iberian lynx, the Canada lynx, and the bobcat. This overview surveys the molecular phylogeny of the group, the timing of their divergenc…

The Eurasian lynx is the most widespread lynx, ranging across the forests of Europe and Asia, and has been the subject of both phylogeographic study and reintroduction efforts. This overview surveys t…

The Eurasian lynx, Lynx lynx, ranges across an enormous swath of Europe and Asia, and this breadth has produced several named subspecies. This overview surveys the taxonomy, including northern Europea…

The Iberian lynx, Lynx pardinus, is a critically endangered Mediterranean felid recognized as a full species distinct from the Eurasian lynx. This overview reviews the evidence for its species status,…

The Iberian lynx genome, among the first sequenced for an endangered cat, revealed the genomic consequences of its extreme population decline. This overview surveys how genomic studies documented exce…

The lynx lineage comprises four species: the Eurasian lynx, the Iberian lynx, the Canada lynx, and the bobcat. This overview surveys their relationships and biogeography, explaining how molecular phyl…

This 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…