Demographic projections of the Apennine brown bear population Ursus arctos marsicanus (Mammalia: Ursidae) under alternative management scenarios

Apennine brown bears are a very small, isolated population of central Italy, consisting of about 50 individuals and under a severe risk of extinction. We performed a population viability analysis (PVA) for this population, contrasting a deterministic model and an individual-based stochastic model, u...

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Main Authors: V. Gervasi, P. Ciucci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:The European Zoological Journal
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1478003