Alejandra Zarzo-Arias

Alejandra Zarzo-Arias

Alejandra Zarzo-Arias
Position

Doctor in Ecology and postdoctoral researcher at the National Museum of Natural Sciences (CSIC) in Madrid

A macro study examines how other species and climate change influence the geographical distribution of brown bears

An international research project involving Spanish participation has analysed the distribution of brown bears in Europe and Turkey. To do this, the team studied more than three million locations belonging to some 3,000 bears, with data from 14 European and Turkish subpopulations in very different environments. The main conclusion is that bears occupy areas where the species that form part of their diet are distributed. The study, published in Global Change Biology, shows that the influence of climate change on these species also has an impact on the distribution of bears.

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