Can landscape characteristics help explain the different trends of Cantabrian brown bear subpopulations?

• Published in: Mammal Research
• Main Authors: Lamamy, Cindy, Bombieri, Giulia, Zarzo-Arias, Alejandra, González-Bernardo, Enrique, Penteriani, Vincenzo
• Other Authors: European Commission, European Regional Development Fund, Junta de Castilla y León, Principado de Asturias
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2019
• Subjects: Human dominated landscapes; Ursus arctos; Human-modified landscapes; Habitat use; Habitat fragmentation; Paloma; Polo; Torre
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/197411; https://doi.org/10.1007/s13364-019-00440-7

A central challenge in animal conservation is to understand how a population may respond to different habitat characteristics, which may affect their growth and viability. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Cantabrian brown bear Ursus arctos population (north-western Spain) was separated...