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Bears and Humans, a Neanderthal tale. Reconstructing uncommon behaviors from zooarchaeological evidence in Southern Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), brown bear (Ursus arctos), and Neanderthals were potential competitors for environmental resources (shelters and food) in Europe.
Benazzi, Stefano   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Yacimientos del Pleistoceno superior en la Península Ibérica con presencia de restos de oso [PDF]

open access: yesMunibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2009
En este trabajo, presentamos los resultados obtenidos tras realizar una revisión bibliográfica de publicaciones arqueozoológicas de conjuntos recuperados en cuevas de la Península Ibérica.
Villaluenga, Aritza
doaj  

Winter insomnia: How weather conditions and supplementary feeding affect the brown bear activity in a long-term study

open access: yesGlobal Ecology and Conservation, 2019
Climate change and anthropogenic food subsidies affect wildlife everywhere in the world. We used a 30-year set of data on winter observations of brown bear Ursus arctos to investigate the effects of weather and supplementary feeding on bear winter ...
Katarzyna Bojarska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fossil large mammals from Wielkopolska: a state of knowledge

open access: yesGeographia Polonica
A number of 125 open-air localities from Wielkopolska documented presence of 18 species (3 carnivores, 4 proboscideans, 3 perissodactyls and 8 artiodactyls).
Adrian Marciszak   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Los osos pardos fósiles de Eslovaquia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
[Abstract] The fossil remains of bears are very frequently found in the karst sediments of the Western Carpathians. Besides cave bears, two taxa of fossil brown bears (Ursus tauba -chensis, Ursus arctos priscus) have been present in the Slovak territory ...
Sabol, M.
core   +2 more sources

Genetic and demographic recovery of an isolated population of brown bear Ursus arctos L., 1758 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The brown bear Ursus arctos L., 1758 population of the Cantabrian Mountains (northwestern Spain) became isolated from other bear populations in Europe about 500 years ago and has declined due to hunting and habitat degradation.
Alcaraz, Lourdes   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Density‐dependent habitat selection in plains bison

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
Using GPS collar data, we tested whether habitat selection of plains bison in Grasslands National Park, Canada, was density dependent. Bison selected for areas of high vegetation productivity far from human activity when population density was low and increased use of lower productivity habitat closer to disturbance as density increased.
Michelle L. Sawatzky   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Distribution of the brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) in the Central Apennines, Italy, 2005-2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Despite its critical conservation status, no formal estimate of the Apennine brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) distribution has ever been attempted, nor a coordinated effort to compile and verify all recent occurrences has ever been ensured.
Altea, Tiziana   +15 more
core  

What does coexistence mean? Insight from place‐based trajectories of pastoralists and bears encounters in the Pyrenees

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract The recovery of large carnivores in Europe raises issues related to sharing landscape with humans. Beyond technical solutions, it is widely recognized that social factors also contribute to shaping coexistence. In this context, scholars increasingly stress the need to adopt place‐based approaches by analysing how humans and wildlife interact ...
Alice Ouvrier   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping trends of large and medium size carnivores of conservation interest in Romania

open access: yesAnnals of Forest Research, 2014
We analysed yearly estimates of population size data during 2001-2012 for five carnivores species of conservation interest (Ursus arctos, Canis lupus, Lynx lynx, Felis silvestris and Canis aureus).
Constantin Cazacu   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

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