A human-neutral large carnivore? No patterns in the body mass of gray wolves across a gradient of anthropization

• Jacopo Cerri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Cerri, Carmela Musto

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jacopocerri@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5030-0376

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• Carmela Musto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jacopo Cerri, Carmela Musto

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Federico M. Stefanini,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Dipartimento di Scienze e Politiche Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Milano “La Statale”, Milano, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4248-6275

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• Umberto di Nicola,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Nicoletta Riganelli,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park, L’Aquila, Italy

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• Maria C. Fontana,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

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• Arianna Rossi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

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• Chiara Garbarino,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

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• Giuseppe Merialdi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’Emilia-Romagna Bruno Ubertino, Brescia, Italy

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• Francesca Ciuti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Canislupus Italia, Firenze, Italy

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• Duccio Berzi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Canislupus Italia, Firenze, Italy

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• Mauro Delogu,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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• Marco Apollonio

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

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