Science Advances · 25 September 2026 · From issue 42
Compound food failure on a deteriorated mast system drives Japan’s bear conflict crisis
Bears invade towns more when forest seed cycles break down, not because bear numbers grew.
Hengjun Xiao, Zhengwang Zhang et al.
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