MANO Tsutomu, OI Toru, YOKOYAMA Mayumi, YAMAZAKI Koji, TSURUGA Hifumi, TAKAYANAGI Atsushi, YAMANAKA Masami
Honyurui Kagaku (Mammalian Science), 48(1) 39-41, Jun 30, 2008
We planned this feature hoping to contribute to the progress of the SWCPM for bear populations and related research in Japan. This feature is a proceedings of three bear research-related workshops held at the Annual Meeting of the Mammalogical Society of Japan in 2007. It contains 11 articles on the SWCPM implementation and other issues for bear populations in Japan, also including density estimation using hair-snare techniques, which is hoped to be an effective method for population monitoring, and two articles of critical commentary.