Fig 1.
Location of the study area in north-west Anatolia and distribution of the three big extant lynx populations.
1: Northwestern, 2: southern, 3: northeastern lynx populations [11]. The continuous line indicates complete and dashed lines indicate potential isolation.
Table 1.
Summary of parameters for invasively and non-invasively collected samples.
Table 2.
Summary of genotyping results at 14 microsatellite loci for north-western Anatolian lynx.
Fig 2.
Relatedness and spatial organization of territorial lynx in northwestern Anatolia.
Mxy relatedness values (A) of female and male territorial lynx in northwestern Anatolia. Plots of genetic dissimilarity (Kosman and Leonard, 2005; nloci = 11) versus geographic distance, for (B) all territorial lynx (ngenotypes = 10), (C) for territorial females (ngenotypes = 5) and (D) territorial resident males (ngenotypes = 5).
Fig 3.
Relatedness (Mxy) among individuals in Eurasian lynx populations, including northwestern Anatolia and autochthonous and re-introduced lynx populations of central and eastern Europe (based on reanalysis of 10 shared microsatellite loci [14]).
Table 3.
Comparison between the northwestern Anatolian lynx population and other autochthonous and reintroduced European lynx populations [14], based on reanalysis of 10 shared microsatellite loci.
Fig 4.
Accumulation rates of diversity measures with increasing sample numbers per sample type.
A) Mean numbers of alleles (), and B) expected heterozygosity (HE) values for genotypes sampled non-invasively (N = 14), invasively (N = 12) and for all genotypes (N = 22), using 8 microsatellite loci.
Fig 5.
Coat patterns and Mxy relatedness values of territorial (No 1–5) and subadult (No 6) female lynx in NW Anatolia.
Mother–Daughter (M-D), Mother–Daughter or Siblings (M-D / S).