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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"brown bear"”.
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THE BROWN BEAR GUT MICROBIOME: A NOVEL TOOL FOR CONSERVATION & MANAGEMENT
… has yet to be realized fully. Here, I use brown bears (<em>Ursus arctos</em>) as an ecological model to investigate (1) how both extrinsic and intrinsic factors influence GMB community membership and structure; and (2) the correlation between GMB membership and brown bear health metrics. To …
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The return of a large Carnivore: Recovery of the Cantabrian brown Bear and the Challenge of Coexistence in a human-dominated Landscape
… awareness policies. A good example is the brown bear in the Cantabrian mountains. At the end of the 20th century there were less than 100 individuals, separated into two genetically isolated subpopulations. By the 1980s the population stabilized and began to recover thanks to the legal …
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Management of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Europe
Successful conservation of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in Europe is associated with public acceptance of damages caused by bears. Recent increases in sheep depredation and beehive damage in central Austria resulted in the deaths of two bears there. Since bear numbers are low in most European …
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"No to the bear" : contested power and truths behind the reintroduction of brown bears in the Pyrenees.
“No to the Bear”: Questions of Power and Truths behind the Reintroduction of Brown Bears into the French Pyrenees At this beginning of the twenty-first century, global climate and biodiversity, including human survival, are seriously threatened. Fuelled by culturally constructed anthropocentric …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… inclusion of cats, birds of prey, and perhaps brown bear in graves emerges as a Norse Scandinavian custom, as is the broad variety of animal species involved in funerary practices, while domestic chicken may represent a link between Sweden and the Rus’. Finally, both differences and analogies …