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This high-profile study coupled climate, prey, and disease dynamics with metapopulation modeling to project the fate of the critically endangered Iberian lynx. It found that standard reintroduction pl…

Fordham, D.A., Akcakaya, H.R., Araujo, M.B., Keith, D.A., Brook, B.W. · Nature Climate Change · 2013

This study linked landscape genetics to climate projections for Canada lynx, asking how warming-driven habitat contraction would affect genetic diversity along the species' southern, trailing range ed…

Koen, E.L., Bowman, J., Murray, D.L., Wilson, P.J. · Ecography · 2014

This paper argued that projections of species distributions under climate change carry large uncertainty arising from the choice of model, climate scenario, and other factors, and that ensemble foreca…

Araujo, M.B., New, M. · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · 2007

This study tested whether competition between Canada lynx and bobcat structures their distributions at a continental scale, with implications for how warming snowpack reshuffles the two species. Lynx…

Peers, M.J.L., Thornton, D.H., Murray, D.L. · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2013

This study documented a feline leukemia virus (FeLV) outbreak in the critically endangered Iberian lynx population of Donana, Spain. Through field surveillance, molecular diagnostics and pathology, th…

M. L. Meli, V. Cattori, F. Martínez, et al. · PLoS ONE · 2009

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

The companion to their numerical-response study, this paper measured how the kill rate of individual lynx and coyotes changed with snowshoe hare density across the Kluane cycle. O'Donoghue and colleag…

O'Donoghue, M., Boutin, S., Krebs, C.J., Zuleta, G., Murray, D.L. & Hofer, E.J. · Ecology · 1998

Working at the southern edge of the Canada lynx range, this study disentangled whether the amount of suitable habitat or its spatial fragmentation better explains where lynx persist. Using occurrence…

Hornseth, M.L., Walpole, A.A., Walton, L.R., Bowman, J., Ray, J.C., Fortin, M.-J., Murray, D.L. · PLoS ONE · 2014

This large-scale Kluane field experiment in the Yukon manipulated food (supplemental feeding) and predation (predator exclusion fencing) across replicated one-square-kilometre blocks to dissect what d…

Krebs, C.J., Boutin, S., Boonstra, R., Sinclair, A.R.E. et al. · Science · 1995

This influential modeling study examined Canada lynx and American marten at the southern edge of their range in the northern Appalachians, asking how climate warming, forest conversion, and trapping p…

Carroll, C. · Conservation Biology · 2007

Ferreras analyzed how landscape structure governs movement between habitat patches in the Iberian lynx metapopulation of Donana and surrounding areas, showing that connectivity was asymmetrical, dispe…

Pablo Ferreras · Biological Conservation · 2001

Part of the Kluane Boreal Forest Ecosystem Project, this study tracked how lynx and coyote densities changed across a full snowshoe hare cycle. O'Donoghue and colleagues documented strong numerical re…

O'Donoghue, M., Boutin, S., Krebs, C.J. & Hofer, E.J. · Ecology · 1997

Stenseth and colleagues applied nonlinear time-series analysis to the long lynx fur-return records and hare data to ask what structures the famous cycle. They found that the lynx series is best descri…

Stenseth, N.C., Falck, W., Bjornstad, O.N. & Krebs, C.J. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1997

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

The Andean cat appears to be a specialist predator of mountain vizcachas, colonial rodents of rocky high-Andean slopes, and this overview reviews the evidence and its implications. Diet studies and th…

The Canada lynx is exquisitely adapted to hunting in deep snow, and this overview reviews the traits behind that specialization. Very large, well-furred paws act as snowshoes, spreading the cat weight…

The Canada lynx is among the most striking examples of a specialist predator coupled to a single prey, and this overview reviews the classic lynx-hare cycle. Across the boreal forest, lynx populations…

Canada lynx are tightly bound to snowshoe hares, whose populations cycle dramatically over roughly ten years, and this overview examines how lynx movement tracks these boom-and-bust dynamics. When har…

A survey of how the distribution and southern range limit of Canada lynx are governed by the availability and dynamics of snowshoe hares. Lynx are tightly tied to boreal forests where hares are abunda…

This overview examines the southern range limit of the Canada lynx and its vulnerability to climate change. The species is closely tied to boreal forest with deep, persistent snow and abundant snowsho…

By the early 2000s the Iberian lynx survived in just two isolated populations, in Doñana and the eastern Sierra Morena of southern Spain, each small, fragmented, and at acute risk of extinction. This…

The Iberian lynx recovery was sustained by a series of large, multi-year conservation projects supported substantially by the European Union's LIFE program, which financed breeding, reintroduction, ha…

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…