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Chapter 22 - Managing for Interpopulation Connectivity of the World’s Bear Species
from Part IV - Conservation and ManagementConservation and Management
- By Michael F. Proctor, Trishna Dutta, Bruce N. McLellan, Shaenandhoa Garcia Rangel, Dave Paetkau, Ronald R. Swaisgood, Andreas Zedrosser
Edited by Vincenzo Penteriani, Mario Melletti
Book:

Bears of the World

Published online:

16 November 2020

Print publication:

26 November 2020, pp 317-337
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Summary

The interruption of animal movement by fragmentation is a major force with far-reaching ecological and conservation consequences. Understanding fragmentation processes underpins our ability to manage landscapes for connectivity, facilitating many ecological processes including gene flow interpopulation dynamics and demographic rescue. Here the current status of fragmentation, connectivity, methods, consequences, and management of the world’s eight bear species is reviewed. The metapopulation paradigm is also considered, i.e. are bears being forced into some form of functioning metapopulation or are they simply being fragmented into a series of isolated populations that, without conservation action, will likely be slowly extirpated, population by population?