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SUBMITTER: Lamb CT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395549 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lamb Clayton T CT Ford Adam T AT McLellan Bruce N BN Proctor Michael F MF Mowat Garth G Ciarniello Lana L Nielsen Scott E SE Boutin Stan S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200706 30
With a shrinking supply of wilderness and growing recognition that top predators can have a profound influence on ecosystems, the persistence of large carnivores in human-dominated landscapes has emerged as one of the greatest conservation challenges of our time. Carnivores fascinate society, yet these animals pose threats to people living near them, resulting in high rates of carnivore death near human settlements. We used 41 y of demographic data for more than 2,500 brown bears-one of the worl ...[more]