Published May 9, 2025 | Version v1
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Range 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. Institute of Nature Conservation, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
  • 9. Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
  • 10. Departamento de Ciencias Integradas, Facultad de Ciencias Experimentales, Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Física, Matemáticas y Computación, Universidad de Huelva, Huelva, Spain
  • 11. Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 12. DivjaLabs Ltd., Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 13. Department of Evolutionary Ecology, National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid, Spain
  • 14. Wildlife Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  • 15. European Forest Institute, Bonn, Germany
  • 16. Department of Wildlife, National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry "Marin Drăcea", Brasov, Romania
  • 17. Department of Silviculture, Transilvania University of Brasov, Brasov, Romania
  • 18. Faculty of Technology, Natural Sciences and Maritime Sciences, Department of Natural Sciences and Environmental Health, University of South-Eastern Norway, Bø i Telemark, Norway
  • 19. Departament de Territòri, Paisatge e Gestion Ambientau, Conselh Generau d'Aran, Vielha, Spain
  • 20. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Faculty of Forestry No: 130, Düzce University, Düzce, Türkiye
  • 21. Brown Bear Foundation, Santander, Spain
  • 22. Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians NAS Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine,
  • 23. National Park "Skolivski Beskydy", Skole, Lviv region, Ukraine
  • 24. Department of Biology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 25. Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
  • 26. Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
  • 27. Servizio Foreste e Fauna, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy
  • 28. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway
  • 29. Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University, Uintah Basin, Vernal, USA
  • 30. Animal Ecology Unit, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all'Adige, Italy
  • 31. Department of Conservation Biology, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain
  • 32. Milvus Group Bird and Nature Protection Association, Tîrgu Mureș, Romania
  • 33. Wildlife Society, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 34. Hunting and Wildlife Program, Kastamonu University, Araç, Kastamonu, Türkiye
  • 35. Department of Agri-Food, Environmental and Animal Sciences, University of Udine, Udine, Italy
  • 36. Natural Resources Institute Finland, Oulu, Finland
  • 37. Protection and Preservation of Natural Environment in Albania, Tirana, Albania
  • 38. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 39. Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland
  • 40. Department for Forestry, Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 41. ARCTUROS, Civil Society for the Protection and Management of Wildlife and the Natural Environment, Florina, Greece
  • 42. Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, Norway
  • 43. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Trondheim, Norway
  • 44. Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Forest Sciences, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
  • 45. Biodiversity Research Institute (CSIC - Oviedo University - Principality of Asturias), Oviedo University, Mieres, Spain
  • 46. Estonian Environment Agency, Tallinn, Estonia
  • 47. Macedonian Ecological Society, Skopje, N. Macedonia, Wildlife Sciences, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany
  • 48. "Callisto" Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society, Greece
  • 49. Progetto Lince Italia, Tarvisio, Italy
  • 50. Adamello-Brenta Natural Park, Strembo, Italy
  • 51. Central Forest State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Zapovedniy, Tver region, Russian Federation
  • 52. Nature Conservation Centre, Ankara, Türkiye
  • 53. Fauna and Flora Service, Generalitat of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
  • 54. Stelvio National Park, Bormio, Italy
  • 55. Servizio Faunistico, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy
  • 56. Centre for protection and research of birds of Montenegro - CZIP, Podgorica, Montenegro
  • 57. Department of Game Resources, Russian Research Institute of Game Management and Fur Farming, Kirov, Russian Federation
  • 58. Research and Development Institute for Wildlife and Mountain Resource,Miercurea Ciuc, Romania
  • 59. The Association for the Conservation of Biological Diversity (ACDB), Focsani, Romania
  • 60. Department of Ecology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 61. Research and Scientific Support Direction, French Biodiversity Agency, Villeneuve de Rivière, France
  • 62. WWF Austria, Vienna, Austria, Institute of Wildlife Biology and Game Management
  • 63. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
  • 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. Macedonian Ecological Society, Skopje, N. Macedonia
  • 71. Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Russian Federation
  • 72. Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 73. Faculty of Ecology, Independent University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 74. Ecology and Research Association, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 75. Tatra National Park, Zakopane, Poland
  • 76. Faculty of Zoology, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Sofia, Bulgaria
  • 77. Department of Biology, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

Description

The Range Database contains data, at a low spatial resolution (50 x 50 km), on the Eurasian historical distribution of brown bear, areas of current presence and areas which were occupied in the past but where the species has been extirpated.

We used 10 different sources of historical data for brown bear, below we report the area of study, the map/figure/data within the publication and the century: for Spain we used data obtained from “Anotaciones al “Libro de la Montería” del Rey Alfonso XI. “(Valverde 2009)  (XIV Century), for North West of Spain (Galicia) the figure 1 from “A conservación do oso pardo en Galicia” (Naves & Fernández-Gil 2017) (XVIII Century), for North of Spain (Cantabrian Mountains) the figure 6.16 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (XIX Century), for Portugal we used figure 1 from “Research trends and geographical distribution of mammalian carnivores in Portugal” (SW Europe) (Bencatel et al. 2018) (XVII Century), for Portugal we also used the figure 1 from “Historical presence of Brown bear in Portugal and evidence of its relation with human communities” (Álvares & Domingues 2010) (XVI-XVIII Centuries), for France we used the data from figure “Répartition de lÓurs brun en France” from the “Encyclopédie des carnivores de France”(Parde & Camarra 1992) (XV-XVI Centuries), figure 1 from “A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines” (Posillico et al. 2004) (XVI-XVIII Centuries), for the former Yugoslavian countries from figure 6.19 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (XIX Century), for Greece from figure 6.8 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (II Century), and the historical distribution for brown bear for Eurasia from the IUCN Red List (McLellan et al. 2017) (XVI-XX Centuries).

FILES INCLUDED

Files name

Period

Source

Hist_range_Spain_varios_LAEA

14th Century

Valverde 2009

Hist_range_Sp_Gal_Nav_LAEA

18th Century

Naves & Fernández-Gil 2017

Hist_range_Spain_1800_LAEA

19th Century

Servheen et al. 1999

Portugal_Bencatel_et_al_range_3035_v1

17th Century

Bencatel et al. 2018

Portugal_Alvares_and_Domingues_rangeConfirmado_3035_v1

16th-18th Centuries

Álvares & Domingues 2010

France_XV_XVI_range_3035_v1

15-16th Centuries

Parde & Camarra 1992

Italy_historical_range_3035_v1

16-18th Centuries

Posillico et al. 2004

Yugoslavia_1800_range_3035

19th Century

Servheen et al. 1999

Greece_II_century_range_3035_v2

2nd Century

Servheen et al. 1999

species_41688_dis2

16-20th Centuries

McLellan et al. 2017

REFERENCES

Álvares F, Domingues J. 2010. Presence histórica do urso em Portugal e testemunhos da sua relação com as comunidades rurais. AÇAFA On Line 3:www.altotejo.org.

Bencatel J, Ferreira CC, Barbosa AM, Rosalino LM, Álvares F. 2018. Research trends and geographical distribution of mammalian carnivores in Portugal (SW Europe). PLoS One 13:e0207866 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207866.

McLellan BN, Proctor MF, Huber D, Michel S 2017. Ursus arctos (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41688/121229971.

Naves J, Fernández-Gil A. 2017. A conservación do oso pardo en Galicia. Cerna 78:43-45.

Parde J-M, Camarra J-J. 1992. L´ours (Ursus arctos, Linnaeus, 1758). Encyclopédie des carnivores de France. Société Française Pour l'Etude et la Protection des Mammifères.

Posillico M, Meriggi A, Pagnin E, Lovari S, Russo L. 2004. A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines. Biological Conservation 118:141-150 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.017.

Servheen C, Herrero S, Peyton B 1999. Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK.

Valverde JA 2009. Anotaciones al “Libro de la Montería” del Rey Alfonso XI. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca.

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