20.500.12556/RUL-114207 Challenges for transboundary management of a European brown bear population Pan-European legislation stimulates international cooperation to overarching challenges of large carnivore management across jurisdictions. We present an analysis for current transboundary brown bear (Ursus arctos) population management in Croatia and Slovenia. Slovenia's bear management attempts aimed to reduce human-bear conflicts, by limiting the size and distribution of the bear population, with a relatively frequent use of intervention shooting. In contrast, fewer conflicts occur in Croatia and bears have been traditionally managed as a valuable game species, with heavily male-biased trophy hunting. On average 9% of the estimated bear population was removed annually in Croatia and 18% in Slovenia for the years 2005–2010. In Croatia, a greater proportion of adult males were shot than in Slovenia (80% vs 47% of total hunted males, respectively). We model a scenario for the shared panmictic population and two scenarios assuming that Croatian and Slovenian bear populations were spatially closed. When isolated, each countries' policies lead to potentially undesired management directions. The Slovenian bear population showed a stable or slightly decreasing trend that maintained its sex and age structure, while the Croatian bear population showed an increase in size but with a possible lack of older male bear. The panmictic scenario showed that different management policies buffered each other out with the overall combined population trend being slightly increasing with a sustained age/sex structure. The recent geopolitical refugee crisis has led to the partial erection of border security fencing between the two countries. Our data illustrate how the impacts of constructed fencing put in place to address border security issues may also impact the fate of Europe's bear populations and other wildlife species that use shared ecosystems. brown bear Ursus arctos Croatia Slovenia modelling population dynamics transboundary management rjavi medved Ursus arctos Hrvaška Slovenija modeliranje populacijska dinamika čezmejno upravljanje true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2020-02-19 13:36:31 2020-02-19 13:36:32 2025-04-11 04:18:06 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2018 0 0 13 str. art. e00488 Vol. 16 2018 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*156 2351-9894 10.1016/j.gecco.2018.e00488 5267110 520381209 1-s2.0-S2351989418302282-main.pdf 1-s2.0-S2351989418302282-main.pdf 1 279C4E5FFDC66862B0C7F62F5F5ECA90 d095a5561bb8c7f0bb33280b1d88b9362d37351788e4f4024b3c2624de0449cf a5a6fe52-15e8-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201700 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989418302282 0 83b0abc1-15e8-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201699 Biotehniška fakulteta 0 0 0