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Reproduction of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) outside current resident breeding populations in Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic

  • Miloslav Jirků EMAIL logo , Dalibor Dostál , Jan Robovský und Martin Šálek
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 19. Februar 2018
Mammalia
Aus der Zeitschrift Mammalia Band 82 Heft 6

Abstract

The golden jackal is a mesocarnivore with a rapidly expanding European range, where current resident breeding populations occupy much of the Balkans, Pannonian Basin and the Black and Caspian seas coasts. Despite numerous post-2000 records, breeding of this species in the newly colonized regions of Central and Northwestern Europe remained unconfirmed. Photography- and direct observation-based evidence obtained in 2017 from Central Bohemia, Czech Republic, indicates a north-western shift in the breeding range over 300 km from the closest known breeding jackal population in Pannonian Basin.

Keywords: breeding range expansion; Canidae; Central Europe; military training area; Milovice

Acknowledgements

We thank Miroslav Kutal (Friends of the Earth Czech Republic – Olomouc), for advice on photo traps, Karel Bendl, Kristina Bendlová and Radek Lacina (Forests Administration of Benátky nad Jizerou) for help in the field, Vojtěch Lukáš for sharing photographs of jackal pups, and Ashlie Hartigan (Natural History Museum London) for correction of English. Our thanks are also due to the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic for support and provision of land for the large herbivore grazing reserve. The survey has been financially supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences “Strategy AV21 – program Diversity of Life and Health of Ecosystems” and by the programme of Regional Cooperation between the Regions and the Institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 2017, project “Monitoring of megaherbivore impact on selected groups of organisms in SCI Milovice-Mladá” (R200961701), Funder ID: 10.13039/501100004240. MJ and MŠ were supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences, RVO 60077344 and RVO 68081766, respectively.

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Received: 2017-10-19
Accepted: 2018-01-18
Published Online: 2018-02-19
Published in Print: 2018-11-27

©2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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  2. Obituary
  3. In memoriam Jamshid Darvish
  4. Museology/history of sciences
  5. On the shoulders of giants: Reginald Innes Pocock and integrative mammal research in museums and zoos
  6. Ecology
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  9. Diversity of primates and other mammals in the middle Purus basin in the Brazilian Amazon
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  11. New reports of the presence and ecology of the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in South Sumatra
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  16. New localities, an update on the conservation status and ethnographic notes for the dingiso tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi et Szalay (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
  17. Biogeography
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  19. Recent records of dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
  20. Evolutionary biology
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  22. Historical record of Holochilus vulpinus (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from northern Patagonia, Argentina
  23. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  24. On the identity of Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758
  25. Annual reviewer acknowledgement
  26. Reviewer acknowledgement Mammalia volume 82 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2017-0141
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
breeding range expansion; Canidae; Central Europe; military training area; Milovice

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Obituary
  3. In memoriam Jamshid Darvish
  4. Museology/history of sciences
  5. On the shoulders of giants: Reginald Innes Pocock and integrative mammal research in museums and zoos
  6. Ecology
  7. Space use and movement of jaguar (Panthera onca) in western Paraguay
  8. A review of the status of the Western polecat Mustela putorius: a neglected and declining species?
  9. Diversity of primates and other mammals in the middle Purus basin in the Brazilian Amazon
  10. Rapid expansion of the American mink poses a serious threat to the European mink in Spain
  11. New reports of the presence and ecology of the Sumatran striped rabbit (Nesolagus netscheri) in South Sumatra
  12. Reproduction of the golden jackal (Canis aureus) outside current resident breeding populations in Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic
  13. Dung-pile use by guanacos in eastern Patagonia
  14. Conservation
  15. Stable isotope analysis as a minimal-invasive method for dietary studies on the highly endangered Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
  16. New localities, an update on the conservation status and ethnographic notes for the dingiso tree kangaroo, Dendrolagus mbaiso Flannery, Boeadi et Szalay (Diprotodontia: Macropodidae)
  17. Biogeography
  18. First record of the Egyptian fruit bat, Rousettus aegyptiacus (Pteropodidae), from Kastellorizo island, Greece
  19. Recent records of dhole (Cuon alpinus, Pallas 1811) in Uttarakhand, Western Himalaya, India
  20. Evolutionary biology
  21. First records of hypopigmentation disorders in the Peters’ ghost-faced bat Mormoops megalophylla (Chiroptera, Mormoopidae)
  22. Historical record of Holochilus vulpinus (Rodentia, Sigmodontinae) from northern Patagonia, Argentina
  23. Taxonomy/phylogeny
  24. On the identity of Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758
  25. Annual reviewer acknowledgement
  26. Reviewer acknowledgement Mammalia volume 82 (2018)
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