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Status of bears

Status and management of the brown bear in Europe

            Andreas Zedrosser, Bjǿrn Dahle, Jon E. Swenson, and Norbert Gerstl

Status and management of Asiatic black bear and Himalayan brown bear in India

            Sambandam Sathyakumar

The brown bear population in Estonia: current status and requirements for management

            Harri Valdmann, Urmas Saarma, and Alar Karis

Life History

Denning chronology of female brown bears in central Sweden

            Andrea Friebe, Jon E. Swenson, and Finn Sandegren

Use of stone pine seeds and oak acorns by Asiatic black bears in central Japan

            Oscar C. Hugyens and Hidetake Hayashi

Effect of feeding stations on the home ranges of American black bears in Western Washington

            Phillip Fersterer, Dale L. Nolte, Georg J. Ziegltrum, and Hartmut Gossow 

Long distance movement of a Florida black bear in the southeastern coastal plain

            Marty R. Stratman, C. David Alden, Michael R. Pelton, and Melvin E. Sunquist

Population Dynamics

Demographic response of American black bears at Cold Lake, Alberta to the removal of adult males

            Glen A. Sargeant and Robert L. Ruff

Factors associated with loss of brown bear cubs in Sweden

            Jon E. Swenson, Finn Sandegren, Sven Brunberg, and Peter Segerstrǿm

Intraspecific predation in Scandinavian brown bears older than cubs-of-the-year

Jon E. Swenson, Bjǿrn Dahle, and Finn Sandegren

Prediction of litter size in American black bears

                John McDonald, Jr. and Todd K. Fuller

Brown bear litter sizes in Croatia

                Alojzije Frković, Djuro Huber, and Josip Kusak

Reproductive biology of captive polar bears

            Igor L. Tumanov

Habitat use and security

Habitat use by American black bears in the sandhills of Florida

            Marty R. Stratman, C. David Alden, Michale R. Pelton, and Melvin E. Sunquist

Preliminary results of the first transplantation of brown bears in the French Pyrenees

                P.Y. Quenette, M. Alonso, L. Chayron, P. Cluzel, E. Dubarry, D. Dubreuil, S. Palazon, and M. Pomarol

Managing for grizzly bear security areas in Banff National Park and the central Canadian Rocky Mountains

             Michael L. Gibeau, Stephen Herrero, Bruce N. McLellan, and John G. Woods

Identifying passages in the southeastern Italian Alps for brown bears and other wildlife

            Paolo Molinari and Anja Molinari-Jobin

Effects of recreation activities on a brown bear family group in Spain

            Javier Naves, Alberto Fernández-Gil, and Miguel Delibes

Bears, culture, and economics

Grizzlies, eskimos and biologists: cross-cultural bear management in southwest Alaska

Lawrence J. Van Daele, John R. Morgart, Michael T. Hinkes, Steven D. Kovach, Jeffrey W. Denton, and Randall H. Kaycon

Attitudes of landowners toward American black bears compared between areas of high and low bear populations

            Jacob L. Bowman, Bruce D. Leopold, Francis J. Vilella, Duane A. Gill, and Harry A. Jacobson

Banff National Park: science and policy in grizzly bear management

             Stephen Herrero, Jillian Roulet, and Michael L. Gibeau

Black bear forest damage in Washington State, USA: economic, ecological social aspects

            Georg J. Ziegltrum, and Dale L. Nolte

Economic aspects of large carnivore-livestock conflicts in Romania

             Annette Mertens and Christoph Promberger

Bear behavior and activity

Measuring levels and patterns of activity in American black bears

Robert O. Wagner, Dwayne A. Hightower, and Richard M. Pace III

Grizzly bear activity budget and pattern in the Firth River Valley, Yukon

            A. Grant MacHutchon

Stimulating natural behavior in captive bears

                  Petra A. Grandia, Jiska J. van Dijk, and Paul Koene

New Methodologies

Use of dogs and mark-recapture techniques to estimate American black bear density in northeastern Oregon

                  James J. Akenson, Mark G. Henjum, Tara L. Wertz, and Ted J. Craddock   

Differential vulnerability of American black bears to trap and camera sampling and resulting biases in mark-recapture estimates

            Karen V. Noyce, David L. Garshelis, and Pamela L. Coy

Power analysis of bait station surveys in Idaho and Washington

            Clifford G. Rice, Jeff Rohlman, John Beecham, and Steve Pozzanghera

Fecal DNA methods for differentiating grizzly bears from American black bears

            Christine M. Clarke, Jennifer A. Fangman, and Samuel K. Wasser