diagnosing mechanisms of decline and planning for recovery of an endangered brown bear (ursus arctos) population诊断机制下降和规划恢复濒危的棕熊(熊属arctos)人口.pdfVIP

Diagnosing Mechanisms of Decline and Planning for Recovery of an Endangered Brown Bear (Ursus arctos) Population 1,2,3. 4,5. 6 7 Guillaume Chapron *, Robert Wielgus , Pierre-Yves Quenette , Jean-Jacques Camarra ¨ 1 Grimso Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden, 2 Conservation Biology Division, Institute of ´ ´ Zoology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 3 Laboratoire d’Ecologie Animale, Faculte des Sciences, Universite d’Angers, Campus de Belle-Beille, Angers, France, ´ ´ 4 Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Departement Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversite, Paris, France, 5 Large Carnivore Conservation Laboratory, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America, 6 Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, CNERA- ´ ` PAD, Equipe Technique Ours - Reseau Ours Brun, Impasse de la Chapelle, Villeneuve de Riviere, France, 7 Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, CNERA-PAD, ´ Equipe Technique Ours - Reseau Ours Brun, Pau, France Abstract Background: The usual paradigm for translocations is that they should not take place in declining populations until the causes(s) of the decline has been reversed. This approach sounds intuitive, but may not apply in cases where population decline is caused by behavioral or demographic me