Home ranges of Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in the Polish Carpathian Mountains
Henryk Okarma, Stanis?aw ?nie?ko & Wojciech ?mietana
Okarma, H., ?nie?ko, S. & ?mietana, W. 2007: Home ranges of Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx in the Polish Carpathian Mountains. - Wildl. Biol. 13: 481-487.
Home-range size of Eurasian lynx Lynx lynx was studied in two different mountain ranges of the Polish Carpathians during 1999-2004. We live-trapped and radio-collared five adult lynx (two males and three females). One female was probably killed only 10 days after being radio-collared. Home-range size of radio-collared individuals calculated for the whole period of radio-tracking (MCP with 100% observations) was 164 km2 for male M1 from the Beskid S?decki Mountains, and it was 124 and 190 km2, respectively, for the two females F1 and F2 and 199 km2 for male M2 in the Bieszczady Mountains.
Key words: Carpathians, Eurasian lynx, home range, Lynx lynx
Henryk Okarma, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 7, 30-387 Kraków, Poland - e-mail: okarma@eko.uj.edu.pl
Stanis?aw ?nie?ko & Wojciech ?mietana, Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Mickiewicza 33, 31-120 Kraków, Poland - e-mail addresses: sniezko@iop.krakow.pl (Stanis?aw ?nie?ko); smietana@iop.krakow.pl (Wojciech ?mietana)
Corresponding author: Henryk Okarma
Received 29 October 2004, accepted 22 May 2007
Associate Editor: Asir J.T. Johnsingh