Session Chair: Vincenzo Gervasi
OR42 – Cost-effective actionable data for conservation and management: combining high-throughput sequencing, demographic modelling and citizen science for a large-scale brown bear monitoring program
Tomaž Skrbinšek, Matej Bartol, Barbara Boljte, Nuša Hrga, Tilen Hvala, Aleksandra Majić Skrbinšek, Elena Pazhenkova, Miha Predalič, Gregor Simčič, Marjeta Konec, Klemen Jerina Genetic monitoring is for many bear populations […]
OR44 – No News is Good News: Estimating Latent Recovery from a Managed State within a Survival Model for Grizzly Bears
Sydney Stephens, Mark Haroldson, Matthew Gould, Andrea Corradini, Cecily Costello, Justin Dellinger, Francesca Cagnacci, Frank T. van Manen Demographic studies of large carnivores often deal with mixed data of individuals […]
OR10 – A Range-Wide Comparison of Expert-Elicited and Empirical American Black Bear Data Reveals Little Agreement
Darcy Doran-Myers, Conor McGowan In 2025, 62 American black bear (Ursus americanus) experts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico participated in a rigorous elicitation process designed to capture their […]
OR29 – Effect of food productivity on the energy balance of female Asian black bears in hyperphagia
Tamako MAKINO, Seungyun BAEK, Akino INAGAKI, Tomoko NAGANUMA, Koji YAMAZAKI, Shinsuke KOIKE Asian black bears in Japan (Ursus thibetanus; hereafter, bears) survive winter food shortages by hibernating to suppress energy […]
OR32 – Predicting grizzly bear predation and scavenging of ungulates from GPS data
Cam McClelland, Terrence Larsen, Karen Graham, Gordon Stenhouse, Dario Fernández-Bellon Understanding carnivore use of habitat resources and interactions with prey is key for the effective management and conservation of their […]
OR05 – Explaining recent increases of grizzly bears in central Alberta: Habitat dynamics, demographics, and translocation
John Boulanger, Gordon Stenhouse, Dario Fernandez-Bellon Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) are classed as a species of special concern in Canada and as threatened in Alberta, where the species occurs along […]