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Bearing the Humans

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Brown bears across Europe are responding to the human footprint, with space use and movement behaviour strongly influenced by limited habitat connectivity. While natural food availability and habitat suitability remain important for bears, growing human pressure is increasingly constraining their ecological role. The picture was drawn by Andrea Gazzola.

Source: Global Change Biology

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.70088

Authors: Andrea Corradini, Steffen Mumme, Francesca Cagnacci

Institutions: Fondazione Edmund Mach, University of Palermo, University of Wyoming

Language: English

Topic: Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Subfield: Ecology

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life on land

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: European Commission