We recommend to all interested in the research on the brown bears a movie from the series “Dancing with Nature” realised by the TVP http://www.tanczacyznatura.tvp.pl/21488540/odcinek-5-wsluchani-w-niedzwiedzia. Nuria Selva, Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica and Filip Zieba talk about what and how we study in, among others, the GLOBE project.
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“Bears and berries”, new paper on species-specific selective foraging on a patchily distributed food resource in a human-altered landscape
When animals are faced with extraordinary energy consuming events, like hibernation, finding abundant, energy-rich food resources becomes particularly important. The profitability of food resources can vary spatially, depending on occurrence, quality, […]
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New paper on differences in connectivity based on habitat versus movement models for brown bears in the Carpathians
Connectivity assessments typically rely on resistance surfaces derived from habitat models, assuming that higher-quality habitat facilitates movement. This assumption remains largely untested though, and it is unlikely that the same environmental factors determine […]
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New publication on the drivers of hibernation in the brown bear
Hibernation has been a key area of research for several decades, essentially in small mammals in the laboratory, yet we know very little about what triggers or ends it in the wild. Do climatic factors, an internal biological clock, or physiological processes dominate? […]
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New publication on the seasonal and annual variation in the brown bears diet
Authors analysed 527 fecal samples of the brown bears inhabiting boreal forest of southcentral Sweden, collected in 1994-1996 and 2000-2001. They described seasonal and annual variation in the diet of brown bears, they also studied berry availability by inventorying 308 […]
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