Miroslav Kutal

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: 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 paper, the authors made the first assessment of wolf-dog hybridisation (WDH) occurrence in Europe and analyzed how the phenomenon is addressed by international legislation and managed at the country level.

TL;DR: The extent and origin of the genetic variation of the Italian wolf population, which is expanding after centuries of decline and isolation, is reassessed and it is shown that the unique mtDNA haplotypes in the Italian wolves likely originated during the late Pleistocene.

TL;DR: Novel data is shown regarding distribution and population genetic structure of the grey wolf in Central Europe, a region considered a frequent crossroad and contact zone of different phylogeographic lineages, in a biogeographic context.