Monitoring of the Pasvik-Inari-Pechenga brown bear population in 2007 and 2011 using hair-trapping

• Main Authors: Kopatz, Alexander, Eiken, Hans Geir, Aspholm, Paul Eric, Tobiassen, Camilla, Bakke, Beate Banken, Schregel, Julia, Ollila, Tuomo, Makarova, Olga, Polikarpova, Natalia, Chizhov, Vladimir, Hagen, Snorre
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Bioforsk 2017
• Subjects: Hårfeller; Hair snares; Brunbjørn; Brown bear; Bestandsovervåkning; Population Monitoring; Molekylær økologi; Molecular ecology; VDP::Naturressursforvaltning: 914; VDP::Natural resource management: 914; Inari; Kautokeino; Norway; Pasvik; Pechenga
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2460174

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, hair traps were systematically placed out in the area to collect hairs for genetic analysis, to more precisely determ...