About the Authors

Guillaume Chapron

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Chapron, Robert Wielgus

gchapron@carnivoreconservation.org

Affiliations Grimsö Wildlife Research Station, Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Riddarhyttan, Sweden, Conservation Biology Division, Institute of Zoology, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Animale, Faculté des Sciences, Université d'Angers, Campus de Belle-Beille, Angers, France

Robert Wielgus

Contributed equally to this work with: Guillaume Chapron, Robert Wielgus

Affiliations Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, Paris, France, Large Carnivore Conservation Laboratory, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, United States of America

Pierre-Yves Quenette

Affiliation Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, CNERA-PAD, Equipe Technique Ours - Réseau Ours Brun, Impasse de la Chapelle, Villeneuve de Rivière, France

Jean-Jacques Camarra

Affiliation Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage, CNERA-PAD, Equipe Technique Ours - Réseau Ours Brun, Pau, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PYQ JJC. Performed the experiments: PYQ JJC. Analyzed the data: GC RW. Wrote the paper: GC RW.