Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria
We present an improved table of the footprint dimensions of the Bulgarian/ Eastern European brown bear (Ursus arctos L.). Our results demonstrated congruence between the length of the hind paw footprint and the width of the fore one, as well as correlation between footprint size, age, and sex of the...
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ftdatacite:10.5281/zenodo.4043917 2023-05-15T18:41:48+02:00 Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria Spassov, Nikolai Spiridonov, Geko Ivanov, Vasil Asenov, Lyudmil 2016 https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043917 https://zenodo.org/record/4043917 unknown Zenodo https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043916 Open Access Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC-BY Text Journal article article-journal ScholarlyArticle 2016 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043917 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4043916 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z We present an improved table of the footprint dimensions of the Bulgarian/ Eastern European brown bear (Ursus arctos L.). Our results demonstrated congruence between the length of the hind paw footprint and the width of the fore one, as well as correlation between footprint size, age, and sex of the individuals. Six categories of bear fore paw and respectively hind paw footprints were identified according to their dimensions, which are related to their body sizes (influenced also by sex and age). The table could be useful for identification of the individuals by their footprints and could be utilised in the National monitoring of the bear in Bulgaria. Examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of using size parameters of footprints for determination of local population numbers and structure. Text Ursus arctos DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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We present an improved table of the footprint dimensions of the Bulgarian/ Eastern European brown bear (Ursus arctos L.). Our results demonstrated congruence between the length of the hind paw footprint and the width of the fore one, as well as correlation between footprint size, age, and sex of the individuals. Six categories of bear fore paw and respectively hind paw footprints were identified according to their dimensions, which are related to their body sizes (influenced also by sex and age). The table could be useful for identification of the individuals by their footprints and could be utilised in the National monitoring of the bear in Bulgaria. Examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of using size parameters of footprints for determination of local population numbers and structure. |
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Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria |
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Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria |
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Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria |
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Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria |
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Bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (Ursus arctos L.) in Bulgaria |
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bear footprints and their use for monitoring and estimating numbers of brown bears (ursus arctos l.) in bulgaria |
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