A5050566609- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
- Wine Industry and Tourism
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
National Forest Centre
2015-2025
Game meat production represents a unique opportunity to align ecological sustainability with the growing consumer demand for sustainable agri-food products. This study focuses on perspectives of processors and landowners in Slovakia Czech Republic, examining their views market trends, customer behaviours, barriers, challenges. Focusing these key stakeholders, highlights central role as drivers shaping sustaining game value chain. research combines secondary data analysis in-depth interviews...
The wolf is a generalist-opportunistic predator that displays diverse and remarkably adaptable feeding strategies across its range with local adaptations to certain prey species depending on their availability vulnerability. multi-prey system of the Slovak Carpathians supports important portion European population; however, it has been markedly understudied. We evaluated winter diet composition selection wolves based 321 scat samples collected between September–April within four different...
Understanding how large carnivores utilize space is crucial for management planning in human-dominated landscape and enhances the accuracy of population size estimates. However, Eurasian lynx display a inter-population variation home ranges across their European range which makes extrapolation to broader areas species distribution problematic. This study evaluates variations 35 Western Carpathians during 2011-2022 based on GPS telemetry explains intrinsic environmental factors shape spatial...
The golden jackal (Canis aureus Linnaeus, 1758) is one of the most widespread canid species. Nowadays, it a permanent species from Slovak fauna. In recent years, their number has grown and dispersion range increased in our country. first evidence this was recorded 1947 after 1989 records presence steadily, originating South Slovakia. quite evident 2009 until 2016 as results demonstrate great significance terms numbers during period. collected data very consistent between culling (strong...
We performed snow tracking of brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the area Eastern Carpathians affected by supplementary feeding during winter periods from 2007 to 2013. On each track we recorded all food habits and collected scats. From these data calculated occurrence frequency on tracks, frequency, volumetric proportion energy values items revealed that: i) most frequent source tracks was corn places for ungulates (FOST = 64%); ii) crops important group found scat samples bears (EDEC 61%, EDECST...
Abstract This summary provides an overview of the golden jackal ( Canis aureus ) categorization in Europe with particular focus on its presence Slovakia. The distribution range this species has been expanding recent decades. Currently, European population is constant and fast increase, widening their ranges towards Central Eastern more recently some western countries. All over Europe, status discussed controversial. A genetic study helped to determine that jackals do not meet established...
In last decades, golden jackals expanded significantly their distribution range, increasing population density, being nowadays present in many countries Europe. Slovakia, dispersion and increase became more constant from 2009. Records of wolves, lynx bear camera traps are rather common across while those still rare, despite a large number active traps. this work, we records camera-trap, located on the east side Kysuce Protected Landscape Area, where, for first time, detect sympatric...
Abstract The population density of large carnivores is a crucial factor influencing livestock losses; however, existing research on this subject has produced conflicting results. Our study aimed to investigate the relationship between brown bears and Eurasian wolves resulting losses in sheep goats due these predators. We also compared caused by during single attack. dataset comprised 1,285 wolf 539 bear attacks recorded from 2007 2021. Over period, killed 6,286, 1,345 goats. To assess mean...
Abstract The wolf is a generalist-opportunistic predator that displays diverse and remarkably adaptable feeding strategies across its range with local adaptations to certain prey species depending on their availability vulnerability. multi-prey system of the Slovak Carpathians supports important portion European population; however, it has been markedly understudied. We evaluated winter diet composition selection wolves based 321 scat samples collected between September – February within...