PS45 – Hair as a Potential Non-Invasive Indicator of Renal Mercury Accumulation in Brown Bears
Ena Oster, Agnieszka Sergiel, Đuro Huber, Ankica Sekovanić, Slaven Reljić, Maja Lazarus Mercury (Hg) is a globally distributed contaminant that accumulates in wildlife tissues and can cause nephrotoxic, haematotoxic, neurotoxic, […]
PS62 – Forensic DNA analysis for identification of a brown bear involved in repeated fatal human attacks in Hokkaido, Japan.
Yuri SHIRANE, Hifumi TSURUGA, Kazuki MIURA, Takafumi HINO Bear-inflicted human injuries and fatalities pose serious challenges to both public safety and bear conservation. Accurate identification of individual bears involved in […]
PS46 – Parasitological survey in faecal samples from Marsican brown bear (Ursus arctos marsicanus) in the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park (central Italy)
Barbara Paoletti, Vincenza Di Pirro, Simone Morelli, Donato Traversa, Angela Di Cesare, Ilaria Lallone, Roberta Latini, Roberto Bartolini, Leonardo Gentile Bears harbour a wide variety of endoparasites, including nematodes (roundworms, […]
PS63 – Evaluation of lingual cuff placement for non-invasive oscillometric blood pressure monitoring in anaesthetised brown bears (Ursus arctos)
Raffaele Silani, Jacopo Morelli, Francesca Zanusso, Alina Lynn Evans, Giulia Maria De Benedictis Anaesthetising free-ranging brown bears entails substantial cardiovascular risk, exacerbated by limited baseline health information and the routine […]
PS47 – Temporal changes in perceptions around sharing the landscape with bears in the Cantabrian Mountains
José López-Bao, Patricia Mateo-Tomás, María Fernández, María Párraga, Guillermo Palomero Brown bears in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain) have experienced a remarkable recovery and spatial expansion over the last decades. […]
PS64 – Partitioning Human and Brown Bear Niches: Interactive Effects of Biological and Social Drivers on Movement Corridors in the Alpine Region
Sydney Stephens, Andrea Corradini, Natalia Bragalanti, Claudio Groff, Alessandro Brugnoli, Nina Gandl, Sybille Klenzendorf, Darragh Hare, Alexandra Zimmerman, Francesca Cagnacci Large carnivore movement is restricted not only by physical infrastructure […]
PS48 – When protected areas are not enough: human pressure inside protected areas disrupts animal spatial behaviours
Aida Parres Lluch, Kamil A. Bartoń, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica, Agnieszka Sergiel, Filip Zięba, Nuria Selva Protected areas (PAs) are a key tool for wildlife conservation, yet many are small and increasingly […]
PS65 – Climate-driven pulses of desert corridor by American black bears (Ursus americanus): a dynamic occupancy framework
Sydney Stephens, Austin Green Low-elevation shrublands of the red rock deserts in southeastern Utah have traditionally been treated as marginal, transitory habitat for forest-associated large mammals between “sky island” mountain […]
PS49 – Human dimensions and bear density data predict human-bear conflict hotspots
Taylor Peltier, Anna Miller, Julie Young, Sara Fischer, Emily Pomeranz, Cody Norton, Tyler Petroelje Regulated hunting and shifting public attitudes toward black bears (Ursus americanus) have facilitated the species’ recovery […]
PS50 – Predicting current and future food resource richness using community science data to inform restoration feasibility for a long-absent apex consumer in California
Samantha Kreling, Ellen Pero, Peter Alagona, Alex McInturff Bear recovery increasingly occurs in landscapes that have undergone substantial environmental change following species extirpation, making evaluation of contemporary and future habitat […]