First results from the supplementary feeding project conducted by our team have just been published in PLOS ONE. The article, entitled “Unforeseen effects of supplementary feeding: ungulate baiting sites as hotspots for ground-nest predation”, shows an increased nest predation risk for ground-nesting birds in the vicinity of ungulate supplementary feeding sites. The results may have important implications […]
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The Institute of Nature Conservation PAS in Krakow offers a postdoctoral position within the project GLOBE (POL NOR/198352/85/2013) „Global climate change and its impact on brown bear populations: Predicting trends and identifying management priorities” to conduct research on the effects of climate change and human-related factors on the stress ecology of the brown bear. […]
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The Institute of Nature Conservation in Krakow, Polish Academy of Sciences, invites applications for two research assistant positions within the project “The ecology of human-wildlife conflicts: disentagling the drivers of brown bear (Ursus arctos) damages at the biogeographical, population and individual level”. More information here or at the website www.iop.krakow.pl.
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Among the countries of the Carpathian Mountains range, Ukraine is the only one without a compensation system for brown bear damages. This has partly led to a limited knowledge on the extent of human-bear conflicts in the Ukrainian Carpathians. Thanks to the “Experience and Exchange” IBA Grant and the hospitality and […]
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Water is a precious resource for animals, especially during hot weather. Brown bears are especially sensitive to heat and often rest during the warmest hours. They also love to take baths. Beaver lakes seem to be an attractive swimming pool. We recorded such bathing trips to beaver lakes during field inspections of the GPS-locations […]
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