Francisco Álvares

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: Although there are still numerous knowledge gaps for the optimised conservation of biodiversity in the region, a set of research priorities is provided to identify the framework data needed to support regional conservation planning.

TL;DR: Using morphologic data, a striking morphologic similarity between East African and Eurasian golden jackals is demonstrated, suggesting parallelism, which may have misled taxonomists and likely reflects uniquely intense interspecific competition in the East African carnivore guild.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that legal obligations to conserve endangered species may be useless if the rule of law is not properly enforced, and that such situation is not exclusive to countries with political instability or weak institutional capacities but can also be relevant to member states of the European Union and therefore bound to European legislation on nature conservation.

TL;DR: A noninvasive method of collection that combines baits and porous materials able to capture saliva that could advantageously allow detection of socially low-ranked individuals underrepresented in sources of DNA that are involved in marking behaviour (faeces or urine).