Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data
International audience Understanding the processes related to wildlife recoveries is not only essential in solving humanwildlife conflicts, but also for identifying priority conservation areas and in turn, for effective conservation planning. We used data from a citizen science program to study spat...
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ftunivnantes:oai:HAL:hal-03502430v1 2023-05-15T18:42:16+02:00 Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data Bonnet‐lebrun, A, Karamanlidis, Alexandros, de Gabriel Hernando, M Renner, I Gimenez, O Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2019-07-05 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430/file/BonnetLebrun_etal_Animal%20Conservation_revised_clean_og_ogreturns.pdf https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12522 en eng HAL CCSD Wiley info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1111/acv.12522 hal-03502430 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430/document https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430/file/BonnetLebrun_etal_Animal%20Conservation_revised_clean_og_ogreturns.pdf doi:10.1111/acv.12522 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1367-9430 Animal Conservation https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430 Animal Conservation, Wiley, 2019, 23, pp.83 - 93. ⟨10.1111/acv.12522⟩ Greece large carnivores Poisson point process presence-only data Ursus arctos citizen science protected areas population recovery [SDE]Environmental Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2019 ftunivnantes https://doi.org/10.1111/acv.12522 2022-06-29T00:42:00Z International audience Understanding the processes related to wildlife recoveries is not only essential in solving humanwildlife conflicts, but also for identifying priority conservation areas and in turn, for effective conservation planning. We used data from a citizen science program to study spatial aspects of the demographic and genetic recovery of brown bears in Greece and to identify new areas for their conservation. We visually compared our data with an estimation of the past distribution of brown bears in Greece and used a point process approach to model habitat suitability. We then compared our results with the current distribution of brown bear records and with that of protected areas. Our results indicate that in the last 15 years bears may have increased their range by as much as 100%, by occupying mainly anthropogenic landscapes and areas with suitable habitat that are currently not legally protected, thus creating a new conservation reality for the species in Greece. This development dictates the re-evaluation of the national management and conservation priorities for brown bears in Greece by focusing in establishing new protected areas that will safeguard their recovery. Our conservation approach is a swift and cheap way of identifying priority conservation areas, while gaining important insights on spatial aspects of population recovery. It will help prioritize conservation actions for brown bears in Greece and may serve as a model conservation approach to countries facing similar financial and logistic constraints in the monitoring of local biodiversity or facing challenges in managing rapid population recoveries. Our conservation approach appeared to be particularly suited to identifying priority areas for conservation in areas with recovering wildlife populations and may therefore be used as an 'early-warning' conservation system. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Université de Nantes: HAL-UNIV-NANTES Animal Conservation 23 1 83 93 |
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International audience Understanding the processes related to wildlife recoveries is not only essential in solving humanwildlife conflicts, but also for identifying priority conservation areas and in turn, for effective conservation planning. We used data from a citizen science program to study spatial aspects of the demographic and genetic recovery of brown bears in Greece and to identify new areas for their conservation. We visually compared our data with an estimation of the past distribution of brown bears in Greece and used a point process approach to model habitat suitability. We then compared our results with the current distribution of brown bear records and with that of protected areas. Our results indicate that in the last 15 years bears may have increased their range by as much as 100%, by occupying mainly anthropogenic landscapes and areas with suitable habitat that are currently not legally protected, thus creating a new conservation reality for the species in Greece. This development dictates the re-evaluation of the national management and conservation priorities for brown bears in Greece by focusing in establishing new protected areas that will safeguard their recovery. Our conservation approach is a swift and cheap way of identifying priority conservation areas, while gaining important insights on spatial aspects of population recovery. It will help prioritize conservation actions for brown bears in Greece and may serve as a model conservation approach to countries facing similar financial and logistic constraints in the monitoring of local biodiversity or facing challenges in managing rapid population recoveries. Our conservation approach appeared to be particularly suited to identifying priority areas for conservation in areas with recovering wildlife populations and may therefore be used as an 'early-warning' conservation system. |
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Bonnet‐lebrun, A, Karamanlidis, Alexandros, de Gabriel Hernando, M Renner, I Gimenez, O |
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Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data |
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Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data |
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Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data |
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Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data |
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Identifying priority conservation areas for a recovering brown bear population in Greece using citizen science data |
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ISSN: 1367-9430 Animal Conservation https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03502430 Animal Conservation, Wiley, 2019, 23, pp.83 - 93. ⟨10.1111/acv.12522⟩ |
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