Juri Kurhinen

TL;DR: Brown bear attacks on humans between 2000 and 2015 across most of the range inhabited by the species were investigated, and attacks have increased significantly over time and were more frequent at high bear and low human population densities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the narrow isthmus between the White Sea and Lake Onega, which is an extremely important connection for the northern element of the taiga fauna.

TL;DR: This study used a long-term dataset on brown bear denning phenology recorded in 12 Russian protected areas and quantified the phenological responses to variation in temperature and snow depth to show that climatic factors are modulating brown bear hibernation phenology.

TL;DR: An extensive, large-scale, long-term and multitaxon database on phenological and climatic variation, involving 506,186 observation dates acquired in 471 localities in Russian Federation, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, is presented.

TL;DR: This paper used 70,709 observations from six decades of systematic monitoring across the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) to investigate phenological changes across taxa and found a mosaic of change, defying simple predictions of earlier springs, later autumns and stronger changes at higher latitudes and elevations.