Animals that must hunt and kill for at least part of their living are inherently interesting to
many people and the role that carnivores play in biological communities attract interest from …

Although species assignment of scats is important to study carnivore biology, there is still no
standardized assay for the identification of carnivores worldwide, which would allow large …

We investigated the influence of sampling location within a faeces on DNA quality by
sampling from both the outside and inside of 25 brown bear (Ursus arctos) scats and the …

Genetic species identification of non-invasively collected samples has become an important
tool in ecological research, management and conservation and wildlife forensics. This is …

Research on terrestrial carnivore ecology frequently relies on scat identification and
analysis. However, species assignment is commonly based on scat morphology. Potential …

Behavioral interference and interspecific competition shape the spatiotemporal behavior of
carnivores, where intra‐guild predation has been recorded as a strategy to limit competition …

The elusive nature and endangered status of most carnivore species imply that efficient
approaches for their non-invasive sampling are required to allow for genetic and ecological …

We assessed the diet of pine marten (Martes martes) expanding in the heavily human-
altered agricultural plain of the River Po, northern Italy. Between February 2008 and …

The use of non-invasive genetic sampling (NGS) has become increasingly popular in
wildlife research but needs well-planned sampling strategies and reliable laboratory …

An hair trapping protocol, with camera trapping surveillance, was carried out on the south-
western side of the Etna, inhabited by an abundant population of the European wildcat. We …