Pavel Dekař's scientific contributions

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European wildcat (Felis silvestris) has been a missing species in the Czech Republic and Western Slovakia since the 1960s.Development of camera trapping techniques in wildlife research has resulted since 2012 in the new records of European wildcat in the West Carpathians in the Czech-Slovak borderland. Here we present the data collected during the...
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In the last decades, large carnivores – the grey wolf (Canis lupus), Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) and brown bear (Ursus arctos), and to a certain extent also the wildcat (Felis silvestris) – have increased their distribution ranges throughout Europe. Monitoring of their current distribution and population trends in the Czech Republic is crucial for th...
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In the last decades, large carnivores – the grey wolf ( Canis lupus ), Eurasian lynx ( Lynx lynx ) and brown bear ( Ursus arctos ), and to a certain extent also the wildcat ( Felis silvestris ) – have increased their distribution ranges throughout Europe. Monitoring of their current distribution and population trends in the Czech Republic is crucia...

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... There is a high level human activity in the study area, including forestry, game hunting, tourism and recreational activities (Kutal et al. 2016). Studies have documented lynx and wolf reproduction and only sporadic presence of brown bear (Kutal et al. 2017;Duľa et al. 2021, author's unpublished data). The ungulate community present in the study area includes red deer (Cervus elaphus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), wild boar (Sus scrofa) and sporadic occurrence of fallow deer (Dama dama) and mouflon (Ovis musimon). ...
... Al� though single individuals disperse through� out the entire country, lynx reproduction is still restricted to Kampinos National Park and its adjacent forests in central Poland (Fig. 2, SOM F1). The Sudety Mountains, the only other area where lynx have often �een recorded, although without any convincing evidence of reproduction (Flousek et al. 2014, Mikusek et al. 2018, is directly connected with areas permanently inha�ited �y the lynx in the Czech Repu�lic, which have relatively good connectivity with the Carpathian lynx population (Kutal et al. 2017). Studies using telemetry have revealed that lynx have the a�ility to disperse across large distances. ...