{"id":1587,"date":"2020-08-06T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2020-08-06T14:58:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:58:18","slug":"the-return-of-bears-to-the-lowlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/2020\/the-return-of-bears-to-the-lowlands\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of bears to the lowlands?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brown bears in Europe are mostly confined to mountainous areas. The recent records of a brown bear with the help of phototraps in Bialowieza Forest (june 2019 and april 2020) have raised important questions about the potential return of bears to the European lowlands. A recently published paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S2351989420307319#fig2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Global Ecology and Conservation<\/strong><\/a>, co-authored by Nuria Selva\u00a0 and led by Tom Diserens, reviews the consequences for ecosystems of an eventual reestablishment of the species in Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest and in the central European lowlands. A diverse array of ecological interactions will be restored, including ungulate predation, scavenging and seed dispersal, having significant and complex management implications.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is freely accessible here:<\/p>\n<p>Diserens TA, Churski M, Bubnicki JW, St\u0119pniak K, Pekach A, Selva N, Kuijper DPJ. 2020. A dispersing bear in Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest raises important ecological and conservation management questions for the central European lowlands. Global Ecology and Conservation <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gecco.2020.e01190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.gecco.2020.e01190<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brown bears in Europe are mostly confined to mountainous areas. The recent records of a brown bear with the help of phototraps in Bialowieza Forest (june 2019 and april 2020) have raised important questions about the potential return of bears to the European lowlands. A recently published paper in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carpathianbear.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}