Identifying potential areas of expansion for the endangered brown bear (Ursus arctos) population in the Cantabrian Mountains (NW Spain)

• Alejandra Zarzo-Arias ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: UO260473@uniovi.es(AZA); penteriani@ipe.csic.es(VP)

  Affiliation Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University—Campus Mieres, Mieres, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5496-0144

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• Vincenzo Penteriani ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: UO260473@uniovi.es(AZA); penteriani@ipe.csic.es(VP)

  Affiliations Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University—Campus Mieres, Mieres, Spain, Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE), CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9333-7846

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• María del Mar Delgado,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University—Campus Mieres, Mieres, Spain

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• Paloma Peón Torre,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Consejería de Ordenación del Territorio, Infraestructuras y Medio ambiente, Dirección General de Biodiversidad, Principado de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

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• Ricardo García-González,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (IPE), CSIC, Jaca, Spain

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• María Cruz Mateo-Sánchez,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation ECOGESFOR Research Group, E.T.S.I Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural, Technical University of Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria s/n, Madrid, Spain

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• Pablo Vázquez García,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

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• Fredrik Dalerum

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, UO-CSIC-PA), Oviedo University—Campus Mieres, Mieres, Spain, Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, Mammal Research Institute (MRI), Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, Pretoria, South Africa

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