• Female brown bears in Sør-Varanger, Norway: localities and mother-cub relationships analyzed by genetic methods 

      Kopatz, Alexander; Andreassen, Rune; Eiken, Hans Geir; Aarnes, Siv; Tobiassen, Camilla; Randa, Rolf; Wikan, Steinar; Hagen, Snorre (Bioforsk rapport;9(167) 2014, Research report, 2014-12-10)
      Knowledge on the number of female brown bears, especially reproducing females, is important for the wildlife management. One of the largest and densest populations of brown bears in Norway is located in Sør-Varanger, ...
    • Monitoring of the Pasvik-Inari-Pechenga brown bear population in 2007 and 2011 using hair-trapping 

      Kopatz, Alexander; Eiken, Hans Geir; Aspholm, Paul Eric; Tobiassen, Camilla; Bakke, Beate Banken; Schregel, Julia; Ollila, Tuomo; Makarova, Olga; Polikarpova, Natalia; Chizhov, Vladimir; Hagen, Snorre (Bioforsk rapport;6(148) 2011, Research report, 2011-12-22)
      The trans-border brown bear population of Pasvik-Inari-Pechenga (Norway-Finland-Russia) has been monitored using genetic analyses of feces collection since 2005. In addition in 2007, hair traps were systematically placed ...
    • Populasjonsovervåking av brunbjørn. DNA-analyse av prøver innsamlet i Norge i 2013 

      Aarnes, Siv; Tobiassen, Camilla; Brøseth, Henrik; Bakke, Beate Banken; Hansen, Berit; Spachmo, Bård; Hagen, Snorre; Eiken, Hans Geir (Bioforsk rapport;9(48) 2014, Research report, 2014)
      I 2013 ble det for femte år på rad samlet inn prøver med antatt opphav fra brunbjørn (Ursus arctos) gjennom det nasjonale overvåkingsprogrammet for rovvilt i Norge. Av de 1222 prøvene som ble samlet inn i 2013 var 806 ...
    • Testing hair sampling on power poles as a potential method for DNA identification and monitoring brown bears 

      Kopatz, Alexander; Aspholm, Paul Eric; Rudolph, Anja; Eiken, Hans Geir; Schregel, Julia; Aarnes, Siv; Tobiassen, Camilla; Hagen, Snorre (Bioforsk rapport;9(168) 2014, Research report, 2014-12-05)
      Genetic methods based on sampling of feces and hairs to study brown bears have become the method of choice for many wildlife researchers and managers. Feces and hairs are the most common sample material for DNA identification ...