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Review of the genetic research on lynx in Europe

Lynx went extinct in most of Central and Western Europe at the end of the 19th century and most of the autochthonous populations experienced a bottleneck of different extent and population numbers were about 10 times smaller than today. In the 1970s, re-introduction programs started in the Alps and in adjacent mountain ranges of Switzerland, Slovenia, Italy, Austria and France. Not all attempts were successful. Today we have in Europe a mosaic of large and small isolated autochthonous populations and several reintroduced populations of different size. We present an overview on lynx genetic research in different small populations and across Europe.

Eurasian lynx; population genetics; Europe

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