Jessa Marley, Rebecca Tyson, Michael Noonan In animal movement ecology, studies often look first at the qualities of the environmentallandscape to interpret changes in movement behaviour patterns, for example by using stepselection analysis.…
Gregory Thiemann, Melissa P. Galicia, Alyssa M. Bohart, Amélie Roberto-Charron,Evan S. Richardson Polar bear body condition (i.e., stored energy) is a crucial link between ecological conditionsand population demography. Reliable estimates of polar bear…
Kristenn Magnussom, Jodie Pongracz, Piia Kortsalo, Abbey Wilson, Sarah Michaud,Karen Graham, Darío Fernández-Bellon, Gordon Stenhouse, Marc Cattet Understanding how environmental drivers affect physiological processes in individual animals isgermane to forecasting how wildlife populations…
Tamako Makino, Seungyun Baek, Akino Inagaki, Naoki Takekoshi, Koji Yamazaki,Shinsuke Koike Migration is the periodic seasonal movement between remote areas of activity and there aresome differences depending on internal factors’ characteristic of individuals.…
Heather Havelock, Jazmin Gonzalez, Charles Robbins, Heiko Jansen Nutrient-dense and convenient foods in crop fields represent well-known areas of conflict forattracted bears. Human-bear conflict is imminent as weight gain is essential for bears…
Mackenzie Clarke First Nations in southwest B.C. have long revered the grizzly bear as a steward of the landscapeand a vital resource for their communities. Indigenous people, maintain a close relationshipwith these bears…
Molly Sharp, Scott Nielsen, Mark Edwards American black bears (Ursus americanus) are generalist omnivores, with a diet primarilycomposed of vegetation and some animal matter. Black bears are noted as potential predatorsfor a number…
Svitlana Kudrenko, Teresa Berezowska-Cnota, Agnieszka Sergiel, Maciej Konopinski,Andrii-Taras Bashta, Serhii Gashchak, Denys Vyshnevskyi, Serhii Obrizan, Michael Wood,Andreas Zedrosser, Nuria Selva The Carpathian brown bear (Ursus arctos) population is the largest in Europe and…
Aimee Tallian, Jonas Kindberg, Håkan Sand, Wiebke Neumann, Fredrik Stenbacka,Jenny Mattisson, Anders Johannson, Beth Stacey Here we present a new research initiative from the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project(SBBRP). This study takes advantage…
Gerald Hodge History has not necessarily been kind to bears. The historiography of bears has only begun togrow in the last 30 years. Few historians have ventured to objectively analyze the bear throughthe…
Tomasz Zwijacz-Kozica Activity level is important information about an animal’s biology and ecology. In the case ofbrown bears, knowing the activity pattern also allows to take appropriate measures to preventconflicts with humans. However,…
Tyler Brasington, Jessica M. Hadley, Justin K. Schwabedissen During hibernation, American black bears (Ursus americanus) and grizzly bears (Ursus arctoshorribilis) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) create dens for protection from harshwinter environments…