SCALP+ monitoring report lynx year 2022 (1. May 2022 – 30. April 2023)

The Status and Conservation of the Alpine Lynx Population (SCALP) was created in the early 1990s to survey the status of the lynx in the Alps, carry out monitoring activities in coordination between Alpine countries and close research gaps in the region. The project brings together a team of experts focused on compiling available data on lynx and standardising their interpretation. SCALP has not only been compiling data required for the description of the conservation status of the lynx population in the Alps, but has also been advancing the conceptual and methodological approach of transboundary monitoring with the SCALP criteria. The SCALP criteria classify species occurrence data according to their verifiability (i.e. C1 = hard fact data, C2 = verified records, C3 = unverified records or records which by their nature cannot be verified) and are now commonly used in several species. Thanks to the standardised data interpretation, direct comparison of lynx distribution between countrie..., , # SCALP+ monitoring report lynx year 2022 (1. May 2022 – 30. April 2023)

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.wstqjq30d](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.wstqjq30d)

## Description of the data and file structure

We share lynx distribution data collected between May 1 2022 and April 30 2023 in eleven European countries (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Switzerland) as Shapefile. Lynx presence was mapped at a 10 x 10 km (ETRS89-LAEA Europe) grid scale.

### Files and variables

#### File: SCALPplus2022.zip

**Description:**  Shape files: Distribution of the lynx in eleven European countries in 2022.

We additionally include the SCALP+2022 monitoring report as a pdf, where we show the distribution map of lynx in the respective countries as well as a map of release sites of seven translocated lynx to reinforce the Alpine and Dinaric lynx populations.

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