Synthesizing Wolf Ecology and Management in Eastern Europe:

Jędrzejewski, Włodzimierz; Jędrzejewska, Bogumiła; Andersone-Lilley, Žanete; Balčiauskas, Linas; Männil, Peep; Ozoliņš, Jurijs; Sidorovich, Vadim E.; Bagrade, Guna; Kübarsepp, Marko; Ornicāns, Aivars; Nowak, Sabina; Pupila, Alda; Žunna, Agrita

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“…This result was consistent with other studies on wolf diet in the rest of Poland and Eastern Germany (Table 3). Wild ungulates were the staple food of wolves also in other regions of Europe (Andersone 1999;Find'o 2002;Sidorovich et al 2003;Andersone and Ozoliņš 2004;Gazzola et al 2005;Barja 2009;Žunna et al 2009;Jędrzejewski et al 2010). The absence of domestic ungulates distinguishes wolf diet in Western Poland from the diet of populations in Eastern and Southern Poland (Table 3) and in several regions of Europe (Find'o and Hood 2001;Find'o 2002;Sidorovich et al 2003;Gazzola et al 2005;Migli et al 2005).…”

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Diet and prey selection of wolves (Canis lupus) recolonising Western and Central Poland

Nowak¹,

Mysłajek²,

Kłosińska

et al. 2011

Mammalian Biology

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a b s t r a c tWolf Canis lupus diet was studied by scat analysis in four main and several other locations recolonised by this species in Central and Western Poland between 2002 and 2009. Wild ungulates made up 94.8% of the total biomass of food consumed, with the most common being roe deer Capreolus capreolus (42.8%), wild boar Sus scrofa (22.6%) and red deer Cervus elaphus (22.2%). Supplementary prey were: fallow deer Dama dama (2.7%), brown hare Lepus europeus (2.5%) and Eurasian beaver Castor fiber (1.4%). Domestic animals, exclusively dogs and cats, made up 1.0% of food biomass. A high similarity in the ratio of wild ungulate species in wolf food biomass between study sites was observed. Wolves hunted wild ungulate species accordingly to their relative abundance in the community. As wild ungulates are abundant and livestock density is low the large forest tracts of Western Poland seems to be very good habitat for wolves. Therefore, with more dispersing wolves from Eastern Poland and Eastern Germany, wolf recovery could significantly accelerate in the next few years in this region.

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Diet and prey selection of wolves (Canis lupus) recolonising Western and Central Poland

Nowak¹,

Mysłajek²,

Kłosińska

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“…; Jędrzejewski et al. ), whereas prey species in southern areas are typically small to mid‐size (Papageorgiou et al. ; Kusak et al.…”

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“…This mtDNA haplogroup (henceforth haplogroup 2) was common in ancient European wolves, but seems to have been replaced over much of the continent and is now largely confined to southern Europe (Pilot et al 2010). The reason(s) for the apparent replacement is uncertain, and larger prey species such as moose and reindeer are more common in northern and central Europe (Sidorovich et al 2003;Kojola et al 2004;Je z drzejewski et al 2010), whereas prey species in southern areas are typically small to mid-size (Papageorgiou et al 1994;Kusak et al 2005). The relationship between the "megafaunal" mtDNA haplogroup 2 and the current wolf of southern Europe therefore merits additional attention.…”

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Genome‐wide analyses suggest parallel selection for universal traits may eclipse local environmental selection in a highly mobile carnivore

Strønen

Jędrzejewska

Pertoldi

et al. 2015

Ecology and Evolution

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Ecological and environmental heterogeneity can produce genetic differentiation in highly mobile species. Accordingly, local adaptation may be expected across comparatively short distances in the presence of marked environmental gradients. Within the European continent, wolves (Canis lupus) exhibit distinct north–south population differentiation. We investigated more than 67‐K single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) loci for signatures of local adaptation in 59 unrelated wolves from four previously identified population clusters (northcentral Europe n = 32, Carpathian Mountains n = 7, Dinaric‐Balkan n = 9, Ukrainian Steppe n = 11). Our analyses combined identification of outlier loci with findings from genome‐wide association study of individual genomic profiles and 12 environmental variables. We identified 353 candidate SNP loci. We examined the SNP position and neighboring megabase (1 Mb, one million bases) regions in the dog (C. lupus familiaris) genome for genes potentially under selection, including homologue genes in other vertebrates. These regions included functional genes for, for example, temperature regulation that may indicate local adaptation and genes controlling for functions universally important for wolves, including olfaction, hearing, vision, and cognitive functions. We also observed strong outliers not associated with any of the investigated variables, which could suggest selective pressures associated with other unmeasured environmental variables and/or demographic factors. These patterns are further supported by the examination of spatial distributions of the SNPs associated with universally important traits, which typically show marked differences in allele frequencies among population clusters. Accordingly, parallel selection for features important to all wolves may eclipse local environmental selection and implies long‐term separation among population clusters.

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“…However, in some countries, such as Estonia and Latvia, wolf abundance and density has been considerably reduced by strong hunting activity. Wolf populations in Estonia and Latvia are believed to be part of the continuous Baltic wolf population [39] which extends through all three Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and is connected to populations in western continental Russia, eastern Poland, northern Ukraine and Belarus. Estonian and Latvian populations went through severe demographic bottlenecks around the mid-1960s, when the estimated average population size during 1966-1970 was about 13 individuals in Latvia and nine in Estonia.…”

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Spatial Genetic Analyses Reveal Cryptic Population Structure and Migration Patterns in a Continuously Harvested Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Population in North-Eastern Europe

Hindrikson

Remm

Männil³

et al. 2013

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Spatial genetics is a relatively new field in wildlife and conservation biology that is becoming an essential tool for unravelling the complexities of animal population processes, and for designing effective strategies for conservation and management. Conceptual and methodological developments in this field are therefore critical. Here we present two novel methodological approaches that further the analytical possibilities of STRUCTURE and DResD. Using these approaches we analyse structure and migrations in a grey wolf ( Canis lupus ) population in north-eastern Europe. We genotyped 16 microsatellite loci in 166 individuals sampled from the wolf population in Estonia and Latvia that has been under strong and continuous hunting pressure for decades. Our analysis demonstrated that this relatively small wolf population is represented by four genetic groups. We also used a novel methodological approach that uses linear interpolation to statistically test the spatial separation of genetic groups. The new method, which is capable of using program STRUCTURE output, can be applied widely in population genetics to reveal both core areas and areas of low significance for genetic groups. We also used a recently developed spatially explicit individual-based method DResD, and applied it for the first time to microsatellite data, revealing a migration corridor and barriers, and several contact zones.

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Synthesizing Wolf Ecology and Management in Eastern Europe:

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Diet and prey selection of wolves (Canis lupus) recolonising Western and Central Poland

Diet and prey selection of wolves (Canis lupus) recolonising Western and Central Poland

Genome‐wide analyses suggest parallel selection for universal traits may eclipse local environmental selection in a highly mobile carnivore

Spatial Genetic Analyses Reveal Cryptic Population Structure and Migration Patterns in a Continuously Harvested Grey Wolf (Canis lupus) Population in North-Eastern Europe

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