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La fenología de Colicodendron scabridum, sapote, en un bosque seco del norte del Perú

Caldasia, 2021
Colicodendron scabridum, comúnmente llamado sapote, es una de las especies arbóreas más abun-dantes en los bosques neotropicales estacionalmente secos y un importante alimento para la fauna.
Sonia Palacios-Ramos, Rolando Montenegro, Robyn D. Appleton, Isaí Sánchez, José Vallejos, Javier Vallejos, Megan A. Owen, Russell C. Van Hor   +7 more
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Large-scale mitogenomic analysis of the phylogeography of the Late Pleistocene cave bear

Scientific Reports, 2019
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is one of the Late Pleistocene megafauna species that faced extinction at the end of the last ice age. Although it is represented by one of the largest fossil records in Europe and has been subject to several ...
J. Gretzinger, Martyna Molak, Ella Reiter, S. Pfrengle, C. Urban, Judith Neukamm, M. Blant, N. Conard, Christophe Cupillard, V. Dimitrijević, D. Drucker, Emilia Hofman-Kamińska, R. Kowalczyk, M. Krajcarz, M. Krajcarz, S. Münzel, M. Peresani, M. Romandini, Isaac Rufí, Joaquim Soler, Gabriele Terlato, J. Krause, H. Bocherens, V. Schuenemann   +23 more
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Olle + björn = sant

Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2009
Children, bears and childhood discourses This essay discusses texts that consider the meeting between children and bears. It looks at both meetings between two real individuals and the meetings between the child and the bear within one and the same ...
Eva Söderberg
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Using bear rub data and spatial capture-recapture models to estimate trend in a brown bear population

Scientific Reports, 2019
Trends in population abundance can be challenging to quantify during range expansion and contraction, when there is spatial variation in trend, or the conservation area is large.
K. Kendall, T. Graves, J. Andrew Royle, Amy C. Macleod, K. McKelvey, John Boulanger, J. Waller   +6 more
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Applying Participatory Processes to Address Conflicts Over the Conservation of Large Carnivores: Understanding Conditions for Successful Management

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Social conflicts over large carnivores are becoming more frequent following the general recovery of large carnivores in human shaped landscapes in Europe. To manage conflicts over large carnivores a detailed knowledge is necessary on the social, economic,
Valeria Salvatori, Estelle Balian, Juan Carlos Blanco, Paolo Ciucci, László Demeter, Tibor Hartel, Katrina Marsden, Stephen Mark Redpath, Yorck von Korff, Juliette Claire Young, Juliette Claire Young   +10 more
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Polar bear evolution is marked by rapid changes in gene copy number in response to dietary shift

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019
Significance Copy number variation describes the degree to which contiguous genomic regions differ in their number of copies among individuals. Copy number variable regions can drive ecological adaptation, particularly when they contain genes.
D. Rinker, N. K. Specian, Shu Zhao, John G. Gibbons   +3 more
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Implication of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Early Childhood Dental Disorders: Large Cohort Evidence, US National Survey of Children Health

Children
Purpose/Objective: Frequent consumption of fermented carbohydrates and bottle feeding contribute to the development of early childhood caries (ECC). There are no substantial findings on the effects of breastfeeding patterns on oral health conditions in ...
Laurens Holmes, Janille Williams, Neyha Thompson, Valescia John, Kerti Depeika, Benjamin Ogundele, Michael Enwere   +6 more
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Developing a Reliable Welfare Assessment Tool for Captive Hibernatory Bear Species

Animals, 2021
Animal welfare assessments are essential for the identification of welfare hazards and benchmarking of welfare improvements, though welfare assessments for zoo species are lacking.
Chloe J. Maher, Angela Gibson, Laura M. Dixon, Heather Bacon   +3 more
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Brown bear (Ursus arctos) attacks resulting in human casualties in Scandinavia 1977–2016; management implications and recommendations

PLoS ONE, 2018
Human persecution and habitat loss have endangered large carnivore populations worldwide, but some are recovering, exacerbating old conflicts. Carnivores can injure and kill people; the most dramatic form of wildlife-human conflict.
O. Støen, A. Ordiz, V. Sahlén, J. Arnemo, S. Sæbø, Glenn Mattsing, M. Kristofferson, S. Brunberg, J. Kindberg, J. Swenson   +9 more
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MORPHOMETRICAL FEATURES OF THE CAVE BEAR AND BROWN BEAR HEAD SKELETON: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Slovenian Veterinary Research, 2022
: The extinct cave bear (CB) is often depicted as a large heavy animal with a prominent, massive skull and severely shortened pelvic limbs. The size and robustness of the CB are comparable to those of the largest living ursids. Great similarities between
Matjaž Uršič
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