PS50 – Predicting current and future food resource richness using community science data to inform restoration feasibility for a long-absent apex consumer in California
Ellen Pero, University Bear recovery increasingly occurs in landscapes that have undergone substantial environmental change following species extirpation, making evaluation of contemporary and future habitat quality central to restoration feasibility […]
OS20 – Predators and scavengers: Polar bears as marine carrion providers
Andrew Derocher, Nicholas Pilfold, James Roth, Evan Richardson, David McGeachy Scavenging is a foraging strategy widely used across the animal kingdom and apex predators provide a large amount of energy […]
OS44 – Bears as dynamic omnivores under global change
Hervé Bocherens, Keith A. Hobson, Dorothée G. Drucker, Agnieszka Sergiel, Jon E. Swenson, Andreas Zedrosser, Adrian Marciszak, Elisabeth Iregren, Leena Drenzel, René Kyselý, Grzegorz Lipecki, Daniel Makowiecki, Jan Wagner, Tomasz […]
OS25 – Synthesizing published climate change projections to inform giant panda conservation
Xiaoxing Bian, Ron Swaisgood, Megan Owen Climate change modeling is common tool used to anticipate climate change impacts on wildlife and inform adaptive conservation planning. Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are […]
OR17 – Environmental drivers of epigenetic variation in brown bears: insights beyond genetic adaptation
Laura Gramolini, Paolo Ciucci, Ian Marc Bonapace, Paolo Franchini, Leonardo Gentile, Alexandros A. Karamanlidis, Oddmund Kleven, Jonas Kindberg, Alexander Kopatz, Diana Lobo, Livia Chavko, José Vicente López-Bao, Slaven Reljic, Lana […]
OR35 – Climatic and productivity correlates of brown bear damage across Europe’s temperate ecosystems over the past two decades
Carlos Bautista, Natalia Bragalanti, Paolo Ciucci, Manuel Díaz-Fernández, Néstor Fernández, Claudio Groff, Djuro Huber, Klemen Jerina, Alexandros A. Karamanlidis, Tobias Kummerle, Javier Naves, Julian Oeser, Santiago Palazón, Mihai Pop, Eloy […]
OR01 – Bioenergetic modelling as a tool in polar bear conservation
Péter Molnár The Arctic is warming four times faster than the global average, with many Arctic species faced with unprecedented changes in their environments. Predicting effects of future change is […]