Monitoring of the Pasvik-Inari-Pechenga brown bear population in 2015 using hair-trapping

• Main Authors: Aarnes, Siv, Kopatz, Alexander, Eiken, Hans Geir, Schregel, Julia, Aspholm, Paul Eric, Ollila, Tuomo, Makarova, Olga, Polikarpova, Natalia, Chizhov, Vladimir, Ogurtcov, Sergey, Hagen, Snorre
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: VDP::Landbruks- og fiskerifag: 900::Landbruksfag: 910; VDP::Agriculture and fisheries science: 900::Agricultural sciences: 910; Bestandsovervåking / Population monitoring; Molekylær økologi / Molecular ecology; Inari; Norway; Pasvik; Pechenga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2378879

The trans-border brown bear population of Pasvik-Inari-Pechenga (Norway-Finland-Russia) has been monitored using genetic analyses of feces collection since 2005. In addition, in 2007 and 2011, hair traps were systematically placed out in the area to collect hairs for genetic analysis, to more precis...