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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

Selective Harvests of Brown Bears Associated With Increasing Skull Size and Older Age Structure.

Jamshid Parchizadeh, Nathan J Svoboda, Kenneth F Kellner, Jon E Swenson, Gary J Roloff, Jerrold L Belant

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Jamshid ParchizadehDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8184-9142
Nathan J SvobodaAlaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Division Kodiak Alaska USA.
Kenneth F KellnerDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA.
Jon E SwensonFaculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway.
Gary J RoloffDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA.
Jerrold L BelantDepartment of Fisheries and Wildlife Michigan State University East Lansing Michigan USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7269-9226

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Legal harvests of wildlife occur throughout North America, where some big game hunters preferentially target individuals with larger body parts (e.g., horn, antler, body size), a practice referred to as selective harvest. Selective harvests have the potential to influence the phenotypic and age composition of harvested animals (e.g., body size, age structure), although inference about population-level change from harvest data alone is inherently limited. Moreover, professional guides can play an important role in selective harvests by helping their clients more frequently harvest animals with larger body parts compared to hunters without guides. We used records of 6426 legally harvested brown bears (

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agebrown bearguideselective harvestskull sizeUrsus arctos

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PMCPMC13075478

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