Planning the Brown Bear Ursus arctos reintroduction in the Adamello Brenta Natural Park. A tool to establish a metapopulation in the Central-Eastern Alps

• Main Authors: Andrea Mustoni, Eugenio Carlini, Barbara Chiarenzi, Simonetta Chiozzini, Edoardo Lattuada, Eugenio Dupré, Piero Genovesi, Luca Pedrotti, Adriano Martinoli, Damiano Preatoni, Luc Wauters, Guido Tosi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Associazione Teriologica Italiana 2003
• Subjects: reintroduction; metapopulation; reintroduzione; metapopolazione; Science; Q; Zoology; QL1-991; Bare Rock; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4404/hystrix-14.1-2-4313; https://doaj.org/article/6de24cec6d2f4869a94669e509a0c40f

Abstract In the 17 th century, brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) were still abundant and widely distributed over the entire alpine area of northern Italy and even in large, dense forests of the prealps and the Po plain. The start of the decline coincided with increasing deforestation for farming at the e...