A protected area influences genotype‐specific survival and the structure of a Canis hybrid zone

摘要: It is widely recognized that protected areas can strongly influence ecological systems and hybridization an important conservation issue. However, previous studies have not explicitly considered the of on dynamics. Eastern wolves are a species special concern their distribution largely restricted to population in Algonquin Provincial Park (APP), Ontario, Canada, where they numerically dominant canid. We studied intrinsic extrinsic factors influencing survival cause-specific mortality hybrid parental canids three-species zone between eastern wolves, coyotes, gray adjacent APP. Mortality risk for APP was significantly higher than other sympatric Canis types outside APP, within Outside annual rate all by harvest (24%) causes dea...