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The role of the brown bear Ursus arctos as a legitimate megafaunal seed disperser
Scientific Reports, 2021 Megafaunal frugivores can consume large amounts of fruits whose seeds may be dispersed over long distances, thus, affecting plant regeneration processes and ecosystem functioning.
A. García‐Rodríguez +5 more
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Animals, 2022 Simple Summary The mechanisms of coexistence between large carnivores are critical for conservation and the management of endangered species. In northeastern China, the distributions of Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) and brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Yunrui Ji +4 more
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Zoonotic Thelazia callipaeda eyeworm in brown bears (Ursus arctos): a new host record in Europe.
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021 Thelazia callipaeda (Spirurida, Thelaziidae) eyeworm, a zoonotic parasite transmitted by lachryphagus drosophilids, causes subclinical to clinical ocular disease in a wide range of animal species, including humans.
E. Papadopoulos +4 more
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Members of the family Ursidae in the Museum of Nature of Kharkiv University and their craniological features [PDF]
Theriologia Ukrainica, 2019 The exhibition and scientific collection of the Museum of Nature currently deposit 16 specimens of the family Ursidae (bears), which belong to three species and 6 subspecies.
Yuriy Iliukhin
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Problem-Solving and Spontaneous Tool-Using Ability in European Brown Bears (Ursus arctos arctos) [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2023 Little is known about the cognitive abilities of bears, despite possessing relatively large brains for their body size. One reason this group is perhaps overlooked is because they are thought to fail to conform to the “social brain” hypothesis, by being ...
Helen R. Chambers, Sean J. O’Hara
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Restoration of transborder connectivity for Fennoscandian brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Biological Conservation, 2021 Knowledge about the connectivity among natural populations is essential to identify management units for effective conservation actions. Conservation-minded management has led to the recovery of large carnivore populations in northern Europe, possibly ...
A. Kopatz +11 more
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Людина і довкілля: Проблеми неоекології, 2023 Purpose. Search for important areas for the presence of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) within the Transcarpathian region using geoinformation modeling tools to optimize the boundaries of the structural elements of the econetwork.
M. V. Teslovych, D. A. Krychevska
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Performance of SNP markers for parentage analysis in the Italian Alpine brown bear using non-invasive samples [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2023 Determination of parentage provides valuable information for the conservation of wild populations, for instance, by allowing the monitoring of breeding success and inbreeding.
Patrizia Giangregorio +7 more
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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021 Canine adenovirus type 1 (CAdV-1) causes infectious canine hepatitis (ICH) and has recently been described as a cause of death among endangered populations of European brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) in the Cantabrian mountain range in Asturias, Spain ...
Á. Oleaga +3 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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