Palaeoecological and genetic analyses of Late Pleistocene bears in Asiatic Russia

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: Kosintsev, Pavel A., Bocherens, Hervé, Kirillova, Irina V., Levchenko, Vladimir A., Zazovskaya, Elya P., Trofimova, Svetlana S., Lan, Tianying, Lindqvist, Charlotte
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Indigirka; Kolyma; brown bear; Chukotka; ob river; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bor.12570; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bor.12570; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/bor.12570

Brown bears are one of the few large carnivore species that survived the final Pleistocene wave of extinctions, perhaps in part owing to their wide ecological plasticity, variety of forms and polyphagia. Although the brown bear has become a well‐studied system, many questions remain regarding the ec...