Figure 1: Study area for scat surveys of bobcats (Lynx rufus ) in southeast Ohio from August 2018 to June 2019. Solid black lines represent transects which were surveyed three times each over the study period. Yellow dots represent scat locations (n = 102) of genotyped bobcat.

Figure 2: Effect of varying buffer width (meters) on estimated density for spatially explicit capture-recapture (SECR) model of bobcats (Lynx rufus ) in southeast Ohio. Vertical lines represent various buffer widths that were tested; 3691 m (orange), 4922 m (black), 6152 m (red), and 7383 m (blue). We selected a buffer 6152 m (5 × σ).

Figure 3: Successive movements (meters) of individual bobcats (Lynx rufus ) with >1 capture identified by DNA from scat and based on ‘detector’ locations. ‘Detectors’ were set as the centroid of each grid cell that was surveyed, and spacing between ‘detectors’ was 1000 m.