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Ex situ versus in situ Eurasian lynx populations: implications for successful breeding and genetic rescue
The main aim of ex situ programmes in conservation is to provide a suitable source of individuals for future reintroductions or reinforcement of existing populations. A fundamental prerequisite is creating and ma...
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Open AccessCoat Polymorphism in Eurasian Lynx: Adaptation to Environment or Phylogeographic Legacy?
We studied the relationship between the variability and contemporary distribution of pelage phenotypes in one of most widely distributed felid species and an array of environmental and demographic conditions. ...
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Long-distance Eurasian lynx dispersal – a prospect for connecting native and reintroduced populations in Central Europe
Dispersal is a key process for the maintenance of intraspecific genetic diversity by ensuring gene flow within and between populations. Despite the ongoing expansion of large carnivores in Europe, lynx populat...
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The Latvian LGBT Movement and Narratives of Normalization
The article examines the visibility of the LGBT community in Latvian public discourse of the last thirty years and the history of LGBT activism. Special attention is paid to the normalization of same-sex relat...
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Open AccessChallenges and science-based implications for modern management and conservation of European ungulate populations
Wildlife management systems face growing challenges to cope with increasingly complex interactions between wildlife populations, the environment and human activities. In this position statement, we address the...
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Status assessment of Eurasian lynx in Latvia linking genetics and demography—a growing population or a source–sink process?
The Eurasian lynx is managed as a game species in Latvia. A variety of demographic parameters were used to assess the current status of the Latvian lynx population and recruitment after annual harvest. Populat...
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Perplexing Times in Educational Research and the Prospects for a New Platinum Standard
D.C. Phillips argues for a platinum standard for educational research and though it is a step in the right the right direction, the disparate voices in educational research make it difficult to see its impleme...
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Genetic diversity and landscape genetic structure of otter (Lutra lutra) populations in Europe
Eurasian otter populations strongly declined and partially disappeared due to global and local causes (habitat destruction, water pollution, human persecution) in parts of their continental range. Conservation...
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Genetic structure of the Eurasian lynx population in north-eastern Poland and the Baltic states
We analyzed the genotypes of Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) from three populations in the westernmost part of the species main range. One population was situated at the distribution edge (NE Poland) and the two other ...
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Winter diets of wolfCanis lupus and lynxLynx lynx in Estonia and Latvia
Winter diets of wolfCanis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 and lynxLynx lynx Linnaeus, 1758 in Latvia and Estonia were investigated in 1997–2000 based on stomach contents of hunted animals and scats. Ungulates appeared to be...
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Food habits of wolvesCanis lupus in Latvia
Diet of wolvesCanis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 in Latvia was studied from 1997 to 2001 based on 302 scats and 107 stomachs. Wild ungulates (cervids and wild boarSus scrofa) and beaverCastor fiber were the dominant prey...
