Large carnivores under assault in Alaska
In Alaska, gray wolves (Canis lupis), brown bears (Ursus arctos), and black bears (U. americanus) are managed in most of the state in ways intended to significantly reduce their abundance in the expectation of increasing hunter harvests of ungulates. To our knowledge, Alaska is unique in the world b...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6333325 2023-05-15T18:41:55+02:00 Large carnivores under assault in Alaska Ripple, William J. Miller, Sterling D. Schoen, John W. Rabinowitch, Sanford P. 2019-01-15 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333325/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30645586 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000090 en eng Public Library of Science http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6333325/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30645586 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000090 © 2019 Ripple et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Perspective Text 2019 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000090 2019-02-03T01:28:05Z In Alaska, gray wolves (Canis lupis), brown bears (Ursus arctos), and black bears (U. americanus) are managed in most of the state in ways intended to significantly reduce their abundance in the expectation of increasing hunter harvests of ungulates. To our knowledge, Alaska is unique in the world because this management priority is both widespread and mandated by state law. Large carnivore management in Alaska is a reversion to outdated management concepts and occurs without effective monitoring programs designed to scientifically evaluate impacts on predator populations. Large carnivore management in Alaska should be based on rigorous science including the status and trends of carnivore populations. Text Ursus arctos Alaska PubMed Central (PMC) PLOS Biology 17 1 e3000090 |
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In Alaska, gray wolves (Canis lupis), brown bears (Ursus arctos), and black bears (U. americanus) are managed in most of the state in ways intended to significantly reduce their abundance in the expectation of increasing hunter harvests of ungulates. To our knowledge, Alaska is unique in the world because this management priority is both widespread and mandated by state law. Large carnivore management in Alaska is a reversion to outdated management concepts and occurs without effective monitoring programs designed to scientifically evaluate impacts on predator populations. Large carnivore management in Alaska should be based on rigorous science including the status and trends of carnivore populations. |
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