Combining N-mixture and occupancy analysis offers a more complete picture of carnivore habitat use in Northeastern Türkiye

• J. David Blount ,

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

  * E-mail: David.Blount@utah.edu.edu

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America,

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3208-2947

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• Austin M. Green,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Science Research Initiative, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7443-3015

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• Mark Chynoweth,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Vernal, Utah, United States of America

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• Emrah Çoban,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation KuzeyDoğa Society, Ortakapı Mah. Şehit Yusuf Cad. No: 93 Kat: 1, Merkez, Kars, Türkiye

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• Josip Kusak,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5544-6486

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• Çağan H. Şekercioğlu

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America,, KuzeyDoğa Society, Ortakapı Mah. Şehit Yusuf Cad. No: 93 Kat: 1, Merkez, Kars, Türkiye, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

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