Eurasian Lynx Female Survival and Longevity in Central Europe

Female survival rates for Eurasian lynx varied from approximately 90% in National Parks to 50% in rented hunting grounds, according to research in the Bohemian–Bavarian–Austrian region. The dataset, authored by Tereza Mináriková and last updated in May 2026, provides supplementary material analyzing the impact of area protection and hunting systems. It includes data on apparent survival and minimum reached age for adult female lynx.

Use Cases

• Modeling population viability based on adult female survival rates mentioned in the description
• Comparing the effectiveness of different protected area categories (National Parks, Protected Landscape Areas, Unprotected Landscapes)
• Analyzing the impact of hunting system governance (state-managed, private, rented) on wildlife mortality
• Studying the relationship between law enforcement levels and illegal killing rates in wildlife populations

Strengths

• Includes specific survival rate percentages (e.g., ~90%, ~70%, ~50%) for different management categories.
• Explicitly compares three distinct protection categories and three hunting system groups.
• Dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting open sharing and adaptation.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 380.7 MB size suggests raw supplementary files; the core analysis data scale is unclear.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Research monitoring of lynx populations, likely involving telemetry or observational studies.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 08:38:01

Geography

Bohemian–Bavarian–Austrian region (Central Europe)