Discussion
Our study is the first to assess carnivore intraguild interactions in an intact Eastern European carnivore community. We used a multi-species occupancy modeling approach (Rota et al., 2016) to determine predictors and seasonal differences of occupancy and co-occupancy for lynx, wildcats, and wolf in the Romanian Carpathians. Our results indicate that while there are seasonal differences in predictors of occupancy and co-occupancy of the three species, co-occurrence of the three species in our study area is high, and is dependent on the existence of continuous, relatively undisturbed forest ecosystems.