Spatial and temporal patterns of human avoidance by brown bears in a reintroduced population

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Acknowledgements We thank the Forest and Wildlife Service of the Autonomous Province of Trento, and particularly Claudio Gro , for the fruitful collaboration o ered for the study. We also thank the Adamello-Brenta Natural Park. Funding came from the Autonomous Province of Trento through a formal agreement with MUSE — Museo delle Scienze, and we thank Paolo Pedrini for facilitating the agreement implementation. We are grateful to the following sta of these institutions and volunteers for their help in the field: Enrico Dorigatti, Riccardo Dorna, Alessandro Franceschini, Marzia Pin, Renato Rizzoli, Stefania Truschi, Massimo Vettorazzi, Gilberto Volcan, Matteo Zeni, Michele Zeni. Elise Zipkin kindly provided statistical advice during the analyses. Finally, we are grateful to the handling editor and two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. Abstract