Decision-makers in wildlife policy require reliable population size estimates to justify
interventions, to build acceptance and support in their decisions and, ultimately, to build trust …

Significant development of genetic tools during the last decades provided opportunities for
more detailed analyses and deeper understanding of species hybridization. New genetic …

Hybridisation between a domesticated species and its wild ancestor is an important
conservation problem, especially if it results in the introgression of domestic gene variants …

Hybridisation between wolves and dogs is increasingly reported in Europe. Nonetheless, no
systematic survey has ever been attempted at the continental scale. We made the first …

Allee effects reduce the viability of small populations in many different ways, which act
synergistically to lead populations towards extinction vortexes. The Sierra Morena wolf …

Representing a form of anthropogenic hybridization, wolf–dog interbreeding may potentially
compromise the ecological and evolutionary traits of local wolf populations and corrode …

After decades of intense persecution, the Iberian wolf subspecies faced a severe bottleneck
in the 1970s that considerably reduced its range and population size, nearly leading to its …

Anthropogenic hybridization is widely perceived as a threat to the conservation of
biodiversity. Nevertheless, to date, relevant policy and management interventions are …

Intra-and inter-specific gene flow are natural evolutionary processes. However, human-
induced hybridization is a global conservation concern across taxa, and the development of …

Taxa belonging to the Genus Canis can challenge taxonomists because species boundaries
and distribution ranges are often gradual. Species delineation within Canis is currently not …