Awaiting discovery: How biases in faunistic surveys hinder conservation in mountain protected areas—A case study from Romania’s oldest national park

• Dan Cogălniceanu,

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

  Affiliation Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2959-014X

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• Dorel Ruşti,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Asociația Harta Verde România, Bistrița-Năsăud, Romania, Asociația Chelonia România, Bucharest, Romania

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• Marius Skolka,

  Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania

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• Florina Stănescu ,

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

  * florina.stanescu@365.univ-ovidius.ro

  Affiliations Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania, Center for Morphological and Genetic Studies of Malignant Pathology (CEDMOG), Black Sea Institute for Development and Security Studies (BSIDSS), Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6872-664X

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• Sabina E. Vlad,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania, Asociația Chelonia România, Bucharest, Romania, Center for Morphological and Genetic Studies of Malignant Pathology (CEDMOG), Black Sea Institute for Development and Security Studies (BSIDSS), Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-669X

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• Teodora L. Tănase,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania, Asociația Chelonia România, Bucharest, Romania

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2683-3320

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• Laurenţiu Rozylowicz

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

  Affiliations Research Center of the Natural Sciences Department, Ovidius University of Constanţa, Constanţa, Romania, Center for Environmental Research, Bucharest, Romania

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