Vital rates of two small populations of brown bears in Canada and range-wide relationship between population size and trend

• Main Authors: ML McLellan (10810995), BN McLellan (8963588), R Sollmann (8963591), Heiko Wittmer (8509749)
• Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Evolutionary Biology; Ecology; brown bear; carnivore conservation; grizzly bear; population recovery; small population; survival; Ursus arctos; British Columbia; Canada
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.26686/wgtn.14607597.v1

Identifying mechanisms of population change is fundamental for conserving small and declining populations and determining effective management strategies. Few studies, however, have measured the demographic components of population change for small populations of mammals (<50 individuals). We est...