Brown bear monitoring data from Deosai National Park

Between September and November 2012, non-invasive surveys were conducted by dividing the national park into survey blocks based on watershed boundaries. Search transects followed mainly along trails in each block to collect and store fresh bear scats in 95% ethanol as described in Bellemain et al. 2007. Spatial locations of all scat samples were recorded by a handheld GPS. Camera trapping was conducted simultaneously at 116 stations along the same trails. The procedure is described in details in Bischof et al. 2014.

于2012年9月至11月期间，本研究团队基于流域界限将国家公园划分为调查区块，并开展了非侵入式调查。搜索样带主要沿着各区块内的路径进行，以收集并储存新鲜熊粪便样本，具体方法参照Bellemain等人于2007年的描述，使用95%乙醇进行保存。所有粪便样本的空间位置均通过便携式GPS进行记录。同时，在相同路径上的116个站点进行了相机诱捕，具体操作流程详述于Bischof等人于2014年的研究中。