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Chapter 22 - Managing for Interpopulation Connectivity of the World’s Bear Species

from Part IV - Conservation and ManagementConservation and Management

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2020

By
Michael F. Proctor ,
Trishna Dutta ,
Bruce N. McLellan ,
Shaenandhoa Garcia Rangel ,
Dave Paetkau ,
Ronald R. Swaisgood  and
Andreas Zedrosser
Edited by
Vincenzo Penteriani  and
Mario Melletti
Vincenzo Penteriani
Affiliation:
Spanish Council of Scientific Research (CSIC)
Mario Melletti
Affiliation:
WPSG (Wild Pig Specialist Group) IUCN SSC
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Summary

The interruption of animal movement by fragmentation is a major force with far-reaching ecological and conservation consequences. Understanding fragmentation processes underpins our ability to manage landscapes for connectivity, facilitating many ecological processes including gene flow interpopulation dynamics and demographic rescue. Here the current status of fragmentation, connectivity, methods, consequences, and management of the world’s eight bear species is reviewed. The metapopulation paradigm is also considered, i.e. are bears being forced into some form of functioning metapopulation or are they simply being fragmented into a series of isolated populations that, without conservation action, will likely be slowly extirpated, population by population?

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Bears of the World
Ecology, Conservation and Management
 , pp. 317 - 337
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