About the Authors

Elisa Belotti

belotti@fld.czu.cz

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 1176, 16521 Prague 6, Czech Republic, Department of Research and Nature Protection, Šumava National Park Administration, Sušická 399, 34192 Kašperské Hory, Czech Republic

Nicole Weder

‡ These authors are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Research and Documentation, Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Str. 2, 94481 Grafenau, Germany

Luděk Bufka

Affiliations Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 1176, 16521 Prague 6, Czech Republic, Department of Research and Nature Protection, Šumava National Park Administration, Sušická 399, 34192 Kašperské Hory, Czech Republic

Arne Kaldhusdal

Affiliation Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 33, 80539 Munich, Germany

Helmut Küchenhoff

Affiliation Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 33, 80539 Munich, Germany

Heidi Seibold

Current Address: Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Prevention Institute, University of Zurich, Hirschengraben 84, 8001 Zurich, Switzerland

Affiliation Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Ludwigstraße 33, 80539 Munich, Germany

Benno Woelfing

Affiliation Department of Research and Documentation, Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Str. 2, 94481 Grafenau, Germany

Marco Heurich

Affiliations Department of Research and Documentation, Bavarian Forest National Park, Freyunger Str. 2, 94481 Grafenau, Germany, Wildlife Ecology and Management, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, Tennenbacher Straße 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MH LB EB. Performed the experiments: EB LB MH. Analyzed the data: NW AK HS BW HK MH. Wrote the paper: EB NW AK BW HK HS LB MH.