Non-invasive faecal sampling reveals spatial organization and improves measures of genetic diversity for the conservation assessment of territorial species: Caucasian lynx as a case species

• Deniz Mengüllüoğlu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: denizmengulluoglu@gmail.com

  Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5203-4147

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• Jörns Fickel,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany, Institute for Biochemistry and Biology, University of Potsdam, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

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• Heribert Hofer,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany, Department of Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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• Daniel W. Förster

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany

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