DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15375278
title: Range Database

description: The Range Database contains data, at a low spatial resolution (50 x 50 km), on the Eurasian historical distribution of brown bear, areas of current presence and areas which were occupied in the past but where the species has been extirpated.

We used 10 different sources of historical data for brown bear, below we report the area of study, the map/figure/data within the publication and the century: for Spain we used data obtained from “Anotaciones al “Libro de la Montería” del Rey Alfonso XI. “(Valverde 2009)  (XIV Century), for North West of Spain (Galicia) the figure 1 from “A conservación do oso pardo en Galicia” (Naves & Fernández-Gil 2017) (XVIII Century), for North of Spain (Cantabrian Mountains) the figure 6.16 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (XIX Century), for Portugal we used figure 1 from “Research trends and geographical distribution of mammalian carnivores in Portugal” (SW Europe) (Bencatel et al. 2018) (XVII Century), for Portugal we also used the figure 1 from “Historical presence of Brown bear in Portugal and evidence of its relation with human communities” (Álvares & Domingues 2010) (XVI-XVIII Centuries), for France we used the data from figure “Répartition de lÓurs brun en France” from the “Encyclopédie des carnivores de France”(Parde & Camarra 1992) (XV-XVI Centuries), figure 1 from “A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines” (Posillico et al. 2004) (XVI-XVIII Centuries), for the former Yugoslavian countries from figure 6.19 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (XIX Century), for Greece from figure 6.8 from “Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan” (Servheen et al. 1999) (II Century), and the historical distribution for brown bear for Eurasia from the IUCN Red List (McLellan et al. 2017) (XVI-XX Centuries).

FILES INCLUDED






Files name



Period



Source





Hist_range_Spain_varios_LAEA



14th Century



Valverde 2009





Hist_range_Sp_Gal_Nav_LAEA



18th Century



Naves & Fernández-Gil 2017





Hist_range_Spain_1800_LAEA



19th Century



Servheen et al. 1999





Portugal_Bencatel_et_al_range_3035_v1



17th Century



Bencatel et al. 2018





Portugal_Alvares_and_Domingues_rangeConfirmado_3035_v1



16th-18th Centuries



Álvares & Domingues 2010





France_XV_XVI_range_3035_v1



15-16th Centuries



Parde & Camarra 1992





Italy_historical_range_3035_v1



16-18th Centuries



Posillico et al. 2004





Yugoslavia_1800_range_3035



19th Century



Servheen et al. 1999





Greece_II_century_range_3035_v2



2nd Century



Servheen et al. 1999





species_41688_dis2



16-20th Centuries



McLellan et al. 2017





REFERENCES

Álvares F, Domingues J. 2010. Presence histórica do urso em Portugal e testemunhos da sua relação com as comunidades rurais. AÇAFA On Line 3:www.altotejo.org.

Bencatel J, Ferreira CC, Barbosa AM, Rosalino LM, Álvares F. 2018. Research trends and geographical distribution of mammalian carnivores in Portugal (SW Europe). PLoS One 13:e0207866 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207866.

McLellan BN, Proctor MF, Huber D, Michel S 2017. Ursus arctos (amended version of 2017 assessment). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41688/121229971.

Naves J, Fernández-Gil A. 2017. A conservación do oso pardo en Galicia. Cerna 78:43-45.

Parde J-M, Camarra J-J. 1992. L´ours (Ursus arctos, Linnaeus, 1758). Encyclopédie des carnivores de France. Société Française Pour l'Etude et la Protection des Mammifères.

Posillico M, Meriggi A, Pagnin E, Lovari S, Russo L. 2004. A habitat model for brown bear conservation and land use planning in the central Apennines. Biological Conservation 118:141-150 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2003.07.017.

Servheen C, Herrero S, Peyton B 1999. Bears. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland, and Cambridge, UK.

Valverde JA 2009. Anotaciones al “Libro de la Montería” del Rey Alfonso XI. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca.