Francesca Marucco

TL;DR: It is shown that roughly one-third of mainland Europe hosts at least one large carnivore species, with stable or increasing abundance in most cases in 21st-century records, and coexistence alongside humans has become possible, argue the authors.

TL;DR: Genetic data indicate that colonizing Alpine wolves originate exclusively from the Italian source population and retain a high proportion of its genetic diversity.

TL;DR: In this article, an expert based update of the conservation status of all populations identified by the Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe (LCIE), available in the document “Guidelines for Population Level Management Plans for Large carnivores” (Linnell et al. 2008) and/or in the various Species Online Information Systems (http://www.lcie.kora.ch/sp‐ois/ ; also see Appendix 1).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a population genetic approach to elucidate some aspects of the wolf recolonization process, including the strength of the bottleneck and founder effects during the onset of colonization, the rates of gene flow between source and colony, and the minimum number of colonizers needed to explain the genetic variability observed in the colony.

TL;DR: A new method to assess large carnivore population trend and survival at large spatial scales is successfully implemented for wolves in Italy and in the Alps and can be widely applied to broader spatial and temporal scales for other elusive and wide-ranging species in Europe and elsewhere.