Tomaž Skrbinšek

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: It is found that segments of cave bear DNA still persist in the genomes of living brown bears, and despite cave bears going extinct during the Last Glacial Maximum, extant brown bears maintain a genomic contribution from cave bears.

TL;DR: The most pressing issues threatening wolf populations in Europe are discussed, important gaps in current knowledge are highlighted, solutions to overcome these limitations are suggested, and recommendations for science‐based wolf conservation and management at regional and Europe‐wide scales are provided.

TL;DR: Four new methods for estimating Ne from a single sample of genotypes to trace temporal change in Ne for bears in the Northern Dinaric Mountains indicate a rapid increase in Ne probably in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

TL;DR: A map of range and local population densities of brown bears in Slovenia, made with the use of a new approach similar to voting classifications based on a combination of four datasets: Global Positioning System telemetry data, records of bear removals, systematic and opportunistic direct observations and signs of bear presence, and noninvasive genetic samples as mentioned in this paper.