The status of many carnivore populations is of growing concern to scientists and
conservationists, making the need for data pertaining to carnivore distribution, abundance …

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 …

Reliable population estimates are necessary for effective conservation and management,
and faecal genotyping has been used successfully to estimate the population size of several …

Diet studies are frequently used to improve understanding of predator ecology, potential
effects of carnivores on prey populations, and competition among predators. However, field …

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 …

Interference competition occurs when two species have similar resource requirements and
one species is dominant and can suppress or exclude the subordinate species. Wolves …

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 …

Distribution data for elusive species are often based on detection of field signs rather than of
the animal itself. However, identifying field signs can be problematic. We present here the …

Many carnivorous mammals consume fruits and disperse the intact seeds to specific sites.
Few studies have attempted to quantify this seed dispersal or evaluate its effectiveness …