Phylogeography of grey wolf (Canis lupus L.) within Carpathian - Balkan space -- application of landscsep genetic approach

Among the four large carnivores in Europe wolf is considered to be the most common and wide-spread. After hundreds of years of systematic overhunting leading almost to extinction the situation is changing and wolf populations are recovering and spreading to new territories. With the use of a wide range of methodological approaches, morphometric, genetic, molecular, and ecological, our aim is to find answers to the following question: (1) what is the level of genetic differentiation of wolf populations along Carpathian arch; (2) what is the level of genetic differentiations in Balkan peninsula; (3) what are phylogeographic relationships among Carpathian and Balkan populations; (4) what were/are migration routes of wolf in Eastern and South-eastern Europe.