Focus on two Brown bear papers

Among the papers we published lately, I’d like to emphasize two contributions on the conservation of brown bears with some eminent colleagues:

• Karamanlidis, A.A., M. de Gabriel Hernando, L. Krambokoukis, O. Gimenez (2015). Evidence of a large carnivore population recovery: counting bears in Greece. Journal for Nature Conservation. This is a joint venture with Alex and the Greek Arcturos NGO in which we provide the first reliable abundance estimates for brown bears in Greece.

• Bischof, R., H. Broseth, O. Gimenez (2015). Wildlife in a politically divided world: insularism inflates estimates of brown bear abundance. Conservation Letters. Richard had this very clever idea to use spatially-explicit capture-recapture models to assess to what extent abundance estimates are affected by double-counting animals that move across borders - see here for a nice summary of our work.