Open AccessAt the table with the big three carnivores - a sympatric occurrence of the golden jackal with bear, wolf and lynx captured on a camera trap in Slovakia
Author(s) -
Nuno Guimarães,
Jozef Bučko,
Marián Slamka
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european journal of ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1339-8474
DOI - 10.17161/eurojecol.v7i1.14655
Subject(s) - jackal , sympatric speciation , geography , range (aeronautics) , population , table (database) , population density , ecology , zoology , biology , demography , database , materials science , sociology , computer science , composite material
In last decades, golden jackals expanded significantly their distribution range, increasing their population density, being nowadays present in many countries in Europe. In Slovakia, their dispersion and population increase became more constant from 2009. Records of wolves, lynx and bear from camera traps are rather common across Slovakia, while those of golden jackals are still rare, despite a large number of active traps. In this work, we present records of a camera-trap, located on the east side of the Kysuce Protected Landscape Area, where, for the first time, we detect a sympatric occurrence of the golden jackal with all three native large carnivores.