Fig 1.
Location of the study area in the South-Eastern Romanian Carpathians; sampling units (grid), the location of transects (lines) and collected samples in summer (red dots) and winter (blue dots).
Table 1.
Average body mass and total number of individuals of live prey items in the study area.
Table 2.
Annual wolf diet in the South-Eastern Romanian Carpathians, from November 2013 to October 2014 (n = 236).
Fig 2.
Seasonal change in the biomass consumed by wolves in the South-Eastern Romanian Carpathians.
Winter: November 2013-April 2014, Summer: May-October 2014. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals.
Fig 3.
Prey selectivity by wolves in the South-Eastern Romanian Carpathians.
D = Ivlev’s index of selectivity which has values between 0 and 1; diet biomass–the relative biomass as present in the diet; available biomass–as present in the wild habitats.