OS28 – A Genetic Recovery Cascade at Europe’s Southern Edge: 25 Years of the “Hellenic Bear “Register”
Miguel de gabriel Hernando, Alexander Kopatz, Lambros Krambokoukis, Tomaž Skrbinšek At the southernmost edge of the brown bear’s (Ursus arctos) European distribution, Greece hosts a population once considered fragmented and […]
OS19 – Eating the Anthropocene: Brown Bears and the Hidden Threat of Microplastics
Andy Schroeder, Scott Farling, Kenzie Hahne, Kayla West, Tyler Brasington, Melanie Clapham Plastic accounts for approximately 80% of all human-produced waste materials found in marine environments, with approximately 14 million […]
OR36 – Fecal DNA methylation enables age estimation in brown bears
Satoshi Ohara, Jumpei Yamazaki, Kyogo Hagino, Yuu Yoshimi, Naoya Matsumoto, Masami Yamanaka, Masanao Nakanishi, Sei Watanabe, Hideyuki Ito, Miho Murayama, Toshio Tsubota, Michito Shimozuru Age information is essential for understanding […]
OR02 – Lessons, challenges and opportunities for human–brown bear coexistence in the Polish Carpathians
Teresa Berezowska-Cnota, Agnieszka Olszańska, Agnieszka Sergiel, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Nuria Selva Damage caused by bears to human properties and the presence of bears in urban areas, together with administrative responses to […]
OR19 – Beyond space use: drivers of dynamic encounter behavior in female brown bears
Ole-Gunnar Støen, Jonas Kindberg, Anne Hertel, Rick Heeres Research over the past two decades has shown social–spatial structuring among female Scandinavian brown bears, suggesting an awareness of conspecifics across the […]
OR27 – Inferring reproductive status and litter loss in brown bears using machine learning on GPS-collar-derived data
Olivier Devineau, Alina L. Evans, Andrea Friebe, Martin Mayer, Boris Fuchs, Alexandra Thiel Brown bear (Ursus arctos) females are known to reduce their movement when accompanied by dependent offspring. In […]