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Can a forest specialist live in a city? Behavioural plasticity fosters the presence of a protected carnivore in urban areas

2026-03-23

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<title>Abstract</title> <p> Urbanisation is reshaping mammalian communities worldwide, yet forest specialists are generally considered poor urban adapters. The pine marten <italic>Martes martes</italic> , for long regarded as an indicator of intact woodlands, has recently shown signs of expansion into human-modified landscapes. Here, we combined citizen-science records and camera-trapping data to reconstruct t...

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Literature Corpus work: 8d0c7ed3-9a5b-55ff-871d-217b82a392cc
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-9043132/v1

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