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dc.contributor.authorReljic, Slaven
dc.contributor.authorJerina, Klemen
dc.contributor.authorNilsen, Erlend B.
dc.contributor.authorHuber, Djuro
dc.contributor.authorKusak, Josip
dc.contributor.authorJonozovic, Marko
dc.contributor.authorLinnell, John D.C.
dc.coverage.spatialCroatia, Slovenianb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-07T14:06:30Z
dc.date.available2019-01-07T14:06:30Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn2351-9894
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2579516
dc.description.abstractPan-European legislation stimulates international cooperation to overarching challenges of large carnivore management across jurisdictions. We present an analysis for current transboundary brown bear (Ursus arctos) population management in Croatia and Slovenia. Slovenia's bear management attempts aimed to reduce human-bear conflicts, by limiting the size and distribution of the bear population, with a relatively frequent use of intervention shooting. In contrast, fewer conflicts occur in Croatia and bears have been traditionally managed as a valuable game species, with heavily male-biased trophy hunting. On average 9% of the estimated bear population was removed annually in Croatia and 18% in Slovenia for the years 2005e2010. In Croatia, a greater proportion of adult males were shot than in Slovenia (80% vs 47% of total hunted males, respectively). We model a scenario for the shared panmictic population and two scenarios assuming that Croatian and Slovenian bear populations were spatially closed. When isolated, each countries' policies lead to potentially undesired management directions. The Slovenian bear population showed a stable or slightly decreasing trend that maintained its sex and age structure, while the Croatian bear population showed an increase in size but with a possible lack of older male bear. The panmictic scenario showed that different management policies buffered each other out with the overall combined population trend being slightly increasing with a sustained age/sex structure. The recent geopolitical refugee crisis has led to the partial erection of border security fencing between the two countries. Our data illustrate how the impacts of constructed fencing put in place to address border security issues may also impact the fate of Europe's bear populations and other wildlife species that use shared ecosystemsnb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectbrown bearnb_NO
dc.subjectUrsus arctosnb_NO
dc.subjectModellingnb_NO
dc.subjectPopulation dynamicsnb_NO
dc.subjectTransboundary managementnb_NO
dc.titleChallenges for transboundary management of a Europeannb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.typeJournal article
dc.rights.holder© 2018 The Authors.nb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480nb_NO
dc.source.volume16nb_NO
dc.source.journalGlobal Ecology and Conservationnb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00488


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