First report of Taenia arctos (Cestoda: Taeniidae) from brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Romania [PDF]
Parasites & VectorsBackground The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is an apex predator with significant ecological importance and serves as a valuable indicator species for monitoring parasitic burdens in forest ecosystems.
Maria Monica Florina Moraru +7 more
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Remodeling of skeletal muscle myosin metabolic states in hibernating mammals [PDF]
eLifeHibernation is a period of metabolic suppression utilized by many small and large mammal species to survive during winter periods. As the underlying cellular and molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood, our study aimed to determine whether ...
Christopher TA Lewis +22 more
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Linking Measures of Inbreeding and Genetic Load to Demographic Histories Across Three Species of Bears [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsHistoric and contemporary demography affect deleterious variation and inbreeding depression, meaning that measuring genetic diversity alone does not capture the nuances of genetic erosion.
Heather R. Clendenin +2 more
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Morpho-Geometric Description of the Skulls and Mandibles of Brown Bears (Ursus arctos) from the Dancing Bear Belitsa Park [PDF]
AnimalsThe present study aimed to describe the skull and mandibles of the brown bear (U. arctos) from the Dancing Bear Belitsa Park using advanced 3D morpho-geometric techniques.
Iliana Stefanova Ruzhanova-Gospodinova +6 more
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Travel specific resource selection by female Kodiak brown bears during the sockeye salmon spawning season [PDF]
Movement EcologyBackground Access to salmon resources is vital to coastal brown bear (Ursus arctos) populations. Deciphering patterns of travel allowing coastal brown bears to exploit salmon resources dispersed across the landscape is critical to understanding their ...
William B. Leacock +2 more
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Modeling Functional Connectivity for Bears Among Spawning Salmon Waterways in Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) Territory, Coastal British Columbia [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionUnderstanding how functional connectivity can provide mobile consumers access to key resources can inform habitat management. The spatial arrangement of landscape features, for example, can affect movement among resource patches.
Ilona Mihalik +5 more
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Dietary ecology of the extinct cave bear: Evidence of omnivory as inferred from dental microwear textures [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 The diet of the extinct European cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, has widely been debated. Diverging from the extant brown bear (Ursus arctos) approximately 1.2 million years ago, the cave bear is one of the most ubiquitous fossil bears occurring in Europe ...
D. Brent Jones, Larisa R.G. DeSantis
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Small cave bear (U. ex gr. savini-rossicus) as a game species of prehistoric man [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2021 Imanay Cave is located in the Southern Urals (53°02' N, 56°26' E), at 420 m.a.s.l. A 9.5 m2 trench was excavated in the grotto in the inner part of the cave to examine the sediments. The accretion thickness was 1.2 m. The taphocoenosis of the Imanay Cave
Gimranov D.O. +5 more
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Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2020 The article presents the results of ecological niche and habitat suitability modelling of Ursus arctos, performed in the Central Forest State Nature Reserve and its buffer zone (Tver region, Russia), using the GNESFA factor analysis method.
Sergey S. Ogurtsov
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Glasnik Šumarskog Fakulteta Univerziteta u Banjoj Luci, 2019 Ovaj rad predstavlja novi korak u razumijevanju stvarnog stanja populacije mrkog medvjeda (Ursus arctos) koji nastanjuje područja Republike Srpske (RS). Rezultati dobijeni anketiranjem 38 od 42 (91%) organizacije koje upravljaju medvjedima u RS (lovačke
Igor Trbojević +4 more
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