Expedition report: Scandinavian brown bears: Winter den sites and feeding ecology of brown bears in woodlands of Dalarna county, Sweden (June 2022) ...

• Main Authors: Friebe, Andrea, Hammer, Matthias
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2023
• Subjects: Citzen science; Brown bear; Conservation; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7768998; https://zenodo.org/record/7768998

Abstract This is a report about the second year of collaboration between Biosphere Expeditions and Björn & Vildmark with the overall purpose of researching the behaviour of free ranging brown bears (Ursus arctos) in central Sweden for the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project (SBBRP). This collaboration investigates, amongst other topics, how climate change as well as human activities affect the brown bear behaviour and population, and provides managers in Sweden with solid, science-based knowledge to manage brown bears. From 28 May to 4 June 2022, six citizen scientists collected data on bear denning behaviour and feeding ecology by investigating the 2021/2022 hibernation season den sites of GPS-marked brown bears and by collecting fresh scats from day bed sites. All field work was performed in the northern boreal forest zone in Dalarna and Gävleborg counties, south-central Sweden, which is the southern study area of the SBBRP. After two days of field work training, citizen scientists were divided ...