The Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project
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Short summary
The Scandinavian Bear Project is one of the world’s most comprehensive and long-running wildlife research projects. Since the project began in 1984, researchers have tagged and monitored over 940 brown bears to learn more about their biology, physiology, behaviour and ecology.
For over 40 years, researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) have been studying the ecology and management of the brown bear.
The overall aim is to provide the public and wildlife management authorities in Norway and Sweden with scientifically based knowledge about bears. The project provides unique, long-term and continuous data on bear biology, and since its inception, over 350 scientific articles and more than 150 reports have been published as part of the project.
Report: Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project. A 40 year research summary
Since 2021, the Scandinavian Bear Project has been part of ‘Viltsamverkan i brandens spår’, a collaborative project launched following the forest fires in the Ljusdal area in the summer of 2018. Researchers are studying, for example, the dynamics between predators and ungulates by tracking bears and moose tagged with transmitters.
Jonas Kindberg is the project manager for the Scandinavian Bear Project and a researcher at SLU. Here you can find the research team working on the project.
