Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management
Coexistence of humans and large carnivores is a major challenge for conservation and management, especially in human‐modified landscapes. Ongoing recovery of some large carnivore populations is good conservation news, but it also brings about increased levels of conflict with humans. Compensation pa...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/224651 2024-02-11T10:09:19+01:00 Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management Zarzo-Arias, Alejandra Delgado, María del Mar Palazón, Santiago Jordana, I. Alfonso Bombieri, Giulia González-Bernardo, Enrique Ordiz, Andrés Bettega, Chiara García-González, Ricardo Penteriani, Vincenzo Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España) European Commission Principado de Asturias Museo delle Scienze of Trento Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) 2020-10-20 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/224651 https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12839 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 https://doi.org/10.13039/100011941 en eng John Wiley & Sons #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/CGL2017‐82782‐P CGL2017‐82782‐P/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/RYC‐2014‐16263 Postprint https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12839 Sí Journal of Zoology 313(1): 1-17 (2020) 0952-8369 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/224651 doi:10.1111/jzo.12839 1469-7998 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100003329 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100011941 open Brown bear Human‐wildlife conflict Human‐modified landscapes Large carnivores Productivity Ursus arctos artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2020 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1111/jzo.1283910.13039/50110001103310.13039/50110000078010.13039/50110000332910.13039/100011941 2024-01-16T11:00:20Z Coexistence of humans and large carnivores is a major challenge for conservation and management, especially in human‐modified landscapes. Ongoing recovery of some large carnivore populations is good conservation news, but it also brings about increased levels of conflict with humans. Compensation payments and preventive measures are used worldwide as part of conservation programmes with the aim of reducing such conflicts and improving public attitude towards large carnivores. However, understanding the drivers triggering conflicts is a conservation priority, which helps prevent and reduce damages. Here, we have analysed the spatio‐temporal patterns of brown bear Ursus arctos damages to apiaries, crops and livestock in the two small, isolated and endangered bear populations in northern Spain. The increase in the number of damages varied in parallel with the increase in bear numbers, which is probably a primary cause determining the occurrence on damages. Damages also varied among years, seasons and bear populations and seemed to mainly depend on the local availability of natural food items, weather conditions and the availability of apiaries and livestock. Fluctuating availability of food items may explain the frequency of conflicts, which is yet another call to apply preventive measures in carnivore damage to human property in seasons and years when natural food availability is lower than usual. Understanding and preventing damage is in turn essential to mitigate conflicts where humans and large carnivores share the same landscape. During this research, V.P., A.O., R.G.G. and A.Z.A. were financially supported by the Excellence Project CGL2017‐82782‐P financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, EU). V.P. was also funded by a GRUPIN research grant from the Regional Government of Asturias (Ref.: IDI/2018/000151). G.B. was financially supported by a collaboration contract with the MUSE – ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Journal of Zoology 313 1 1 17 |
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Coexistence of humans and large carnivores is a major challenge for conservation and management, especially in human‐modified landscapes. Ongoing recovery of some large carnivore populations is good conservation news, but it also brings about increased levels of conflict with humans. Compensation payments and preventive measures are used worldwide as part of conservation programmes with the aim of reducing such conflicts and improving public attitude towards large carnivores. However, understanding the drivers triggering conflicts is a conservation priority, which helps prevent and reduce damages. Here, we have analysed the spatio‐temporal patterns of brown bear Ursus arctos damages to apiaries, crops and livestock in the two small, isolated and endangered bear populations in northern Spain. The increase in the number of damages varied in parallel with the increase in bear numbers, which is probably a primary cause determining the occurrence on damages. Damages also varied among years, seasons and bear populations and seemed to mainly depend on the local availability of natural food items, weather conditions and the availability of apiaries and livestock. Fluctuating availability of food items may explain the frequency of conflicts, which is yet another call to apply preventive measures in carnivore damage to human property in seasons and years when natural food availability is lower than usual. Understanding and preventing damage is in turn essential to mitigate conflicts where humans and large carnivores share the same landscape. During this research, V.P., A.O., R.G.G. and A.Z.A. were financially supported by the Excellence Project CGL2017‐82782‐P financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, EU). V.P. was also funded by a GRUPIN research grant from the Regional Government of Asturias (Ref.: IDI/2018/000151). G.B. was financially supported by a collaboration contract with the MUSE – ... |
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Zarzo-Arias, Alejandra Delgado, María del Mar Palazón, Santiago Jordana, I. Alfonso Bombieri, Giulia González-Bernardo, Enrique Ordiz, Andrés Bettega, Chiara García-González, Ricardo Penteriani, Vincenzo |
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Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management |
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Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management |
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Seasonality, local resources and environmental factors influence patterns of brown bear damages: implications for management |
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