Published May 8, 2025 | Version v1
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Brown bear trophic interactions database

Creators

  • 1. Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
  • 2. Department of Biology and Biotechnologies "Charles Darwin", Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
  • 3. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain
  • 4. Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, LECA, Grenoble, France
  • 5. Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
  • 6. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
  • 7. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 8. Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
  • 9. Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Física, Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
  • 10. Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 11. DivjaLabs Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 12. Department of Evolutionary Ecology, National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
  • 13. Wildlife Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  • 14. European Forest Institute, Bonn, Germany
  • 15. Department of Wildlife, National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Brasov, Romania
  • 16. Department of Silviculture, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
  • 17. Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø i Telemark, Norway
  • 18. Departament de Territòri, Paisatge e Gestion Ambientau, Conselh Generau d'Aran, Vielha, Spain
  • 19. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Faculty of Forestry No: 130, Düzce University, Düzce, Türkiye
  • 20. Brown Bear Foundation, Santander, Spain
  • 21. Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians NAS Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 22. National Park "Skolivski Beskydy", Skole, Lviv region, Ukraine
  • 23. Department of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 24. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 25. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
  • 26. Servizio Foreste e Fauna, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy
  • 27. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
  • 28. Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Uintah Basin, Vernal, USA
  • 29. Animal Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
  • 30. Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
  • 31. Milvus Group Bird and Nature Protection Association, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
  • 32. Wildlife Society, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 33. Hunting and Wildlife Program, Kastamonu University, Araç, Kastamonu, Türkiye
  • 34. Department of Agri-Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
  • 35. Natural Resources Institute Finland, Oulu, Finland
  • 36. Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania, Tirana, Albania
  • 37. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 38. Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
  • 39. Department for Forestry, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 40. ARCTUROS, Civil Society for the Protection and Management of Wildlife and the Natural Environment, Florina, Greece
  • 41. Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
  • 42. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway
  • 43. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
  • 44. Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC - Oviedo University - Principality of Asturias), Oviedo University, Mieres, Spain
  • 45. Estonian Environment Agency, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 46. Macedonian Ecological Society, Skopje, N. Macedonia
  • 47. "Callisto" Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society, Greece
  • 48. Progetto Lince Italia, Tarvisio, Italy
  • 49. Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, Strembo, Italy
  • 50. Central Forest State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Zapovedniy, Tver region, Russian Federation
  • 51. Nature Conservation Centre, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 52. Fauna and Flora Service, Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
  • 53. Stelvio National Park, Bormio, Italy
  • 54. Servizio Faunistico, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy
  • 55. Centre for protection and research of birds of Montenegro - CZIP, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 56. Department of Game Resources, Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming, Kirov, Russian Federation
  • 57. Research and Development Institute for Wildlife and Mountain Resource,Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
  • 58. The Association for the Conservation of Biological Diversity (ACDB), Focsani, Romania
  • 59. Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 60. Research and Scientific Support Direction, French Biodiversity Agency, Villeneuve de Rivière, France
  • 61. WWF Austria, Vienna, Austria
  • 62. Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  • 63. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 64. Oikon Ltd. - Institute of Applied Ecology, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 65. Department of Zoology, Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
  • 66. Department of Game and Wildlife, Cankiri Karatekin University, Çankırı Merkez/Çankırı, Türkiye
  • 67. School of Biological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States
  • 68. Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Koç University, İstanbul, Türkiye
  • 69. Carpathian Widlife Society, Zvolen, Slovakia
  • 70. Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation
  • 71. Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 72. Faculty of Ecology, Independent University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 73. Ecology and Research Association, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 74. Tatra National Park, Zakopane, Poland
  • 75. Faculty of Zoology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 76. Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Description

This dataset is a unique, highly detailed, spatially-explicit database of trophic interactions of brown bear across Europe and Türkiye. It contains six files: Supplementary Tables 1-4 (Trophic Database); Supplementary Table 5 which shows a list of species in the diet; Supplementary Table 27, summarizing the relative energy contribution of each food item (rEDEC) for each species by subpopulation.

FILES INCLUDED

Files name

Description

Supplementary Table 1

List of brown bear diet studies included in our database

Supplementary Table 2

Database of diet of brown bear

Supplementary Table 3

Coefficient factors (Cf1 and Cf2) associated to each category of diet used to convert rV to rEDEC

Supplementary Table 4

This table is a subset of Supplementary Table 2 presenting only the infromation for the selected studies to account for current biotic intercations (See Supplementay Table 1)

Supplementary Table 5

List of all species in the diet of brown bear considered with GBIF data of number of occurrences, species key, cleaned occurrences

Supplementary Table 27

Matrix showing the summarized data of rEDEC for each species by subpopulation.

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