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.