Increasing urbanisation challenges biodiversity conservation, especially for wildlife adapting to fragmenting habitats. Carnivores are particularly affected, due to their large spatial needs and low densities. Solitary felids are particularly cryptic and detecting them is challenging; traditional methods often face financial and logistical constraints necessitating alternative approaches for species monitoring. Participatory s...

The objective was to develop spatially based (type‐specific) methods to assess the ecological status of European rivers according to the EU Water Framework Directive. Some 15 000 samples from about 8000 sites were pre‐classified within a five‐tiered classification system based on hydromorphological and physico‐chemical pressures. The pre‐classification was used to identify reference conditions and to calibrate the assessment m...