The tale of a short-tailed cat: New outstanding Late Pleistocene fossils of Lynx pardinus from southern Italy

B Mecozzi, R Sardella, A Boscaini, M Cherin… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The pardel lynx Lynx pardinus is today restricted to small populations living in southern
Iberian Peninsula. However, this endangered species was widely spread throughout Iberia …

Research trends and geographical distribution of mammalian carnivores in Portugal (SW Europe)

J Bencatel, CC Ferreira, AM Barbosa, LM Rosalino… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Information regarding species' status at a regional scale is instrumental for effective
conservation planning. Some regions of southwestern Europe, such as Portugal, albeit …

Genomic patterns in the widespread Eurasian lynx shaped by Late Quaternary climatic fluctuations and anthropogenic impacts

M Lucena‐Perez, E Marmesat… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Disentangling the contribution of long‐term evolutionary processes and recent
anthropogenic impacts to current genetic patterns of wildlife species is key to assessing …

The rise of a large carnivore population in Central Europe: genetic evaluation of lynx reintroduction in the Harz Mountains

SA Mueller, TE Reiners, TL Middelhoff, O Anders… - Conservation …, 2020 - Springer
Large carnivores have made a successful comeback across human-dominated landscapes
in Central Europe. The Eurasian lynx, for instance, has been actively reintroduced in …

Recent increase in species-wide diversity after interspecies introgression in the highly endangered Iberian lynx

M Lucena-Perez, JLA Paijmans, F Nocete… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is lost in small and isolated populations, affecting many globally declining
species. Interspecific admixture events can increase genetic variation in the recipient …

Latest Early Pleistocene remains of Lynx pardinus (Carnivora, Felidae) from the Iberian Peninsula: taxonomy and evolutionary implications

A Boscaini, DM Alba, JF Beltrán, S Moya-Sola… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) is a critically endangered felid that, during the last
fifty years, has been subject to an intensive conservation program in an attempt to save it …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient genome provides insights into the history of Eurasian lynx in Iberia and Western Europe

M Lucena-Perez, E Bazzicalupo, J Paijmans… - Quaternary Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the most widely distributed felids in the
world. However, most of its populations started to decline a few millennia ago. Historical …

Cueva de los Torrejones revisited. New insights on the paleoecology of inland Iberia during the Late Pleistocene

N Sala, A Pablos, A Rodríguez-Hidalgo… - Quaternary Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
The interior of the Iberian Peninsula has orographic conditions that make this territory
especially vulnerable to Quaternary climate oscillations and which actually could have made …

[PDF][PDF] The lynxes (Lynx pardinus/spelaeus, Lynx lynx) from the Middle Pleistocene to the Holocene in southern France: a paleontological and taphonomical overview.

P Fosse, JP Brugal, E Crégut‐bonnoure… - Recull d'estudis de …, 2021 - hal.science
Paleontological data on lynx are relatively scarce in Pleistocene sites. However, in southern
France and Monaco, samples from caves of Escale (NISP= 435; MNI= 15), Observatoire …

[HTML][HTML] Presencia de felinos (Felis, Lynx y Panthera) en el registro arqueológico de la Península Ibérica durante el Pleistoceno Superior

A Villaluenga - Archaeofauna: International Journal of …, 2016 - ekoizpen-zientifikoa.ehu.eus
Este artículo tiene por objetivo el análisis de la distribución biogeográfica de felinos (Felis,
Lynx y Panthera) en la Península Ibérica durante el Pleistoceno Superior. Este periodo …