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 […]
OS41 – Goldilocks or Anna Karenina? Bear management principles and policies
Named after the protagonist of a classic fairy tale, the Goldilocks Principle alludes to the existence of a middle ground or third way between opposite extremes that is “just right”. […]
OR44 – No News is Good News: Estimating Latent Recovery from a Managed State within a Survival Model for Grizzly Bears
Mark Haroldson, Matthew Gould, Andrea Corradini, Cecily Costello, Justin Dellinger, Francesca Cagnacci, Frank van Manen Demographic studies of large carnivores often deal with mixed data of individuals with different risk […]
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 […]