A systematic review of the effects of climate variability and change on black and brown bear ecology and interactions with humans

KA Kurth, KC Malpeli, JD Clark, HE Johnson… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change poses a pervasive threat to humans and wildlife by altering resource
availability, changing co-occurrences, and directly or indirectly influencing human-wildlife …

A test of the green wave hypothesis in omnivorous brown bears across North America

NR Bowersock, LM Ciarniello, WW Deacy… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Herbivorous animals tend to seek out plants at intermediate phenological states to improve
energy intake while minimizing consumption of fibrous material. In some ecosystems, the …

Corridor‐based approach with spatial cross‐validation reveals scale‐dependent effects of geographic distance, human footprint and canopy cover on grizzly bear …

EC Palm, EL Landguth, ZA Holden, CC Day… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how human infrastructure and other landscape attributes affect genetic
differentiation in animals is an important step for identifying and maintaining dispersal …

The impact of mountain pine beetle outbreaks and their treatment methods on the abundance of plant-foods important to caribou and grizzly bears

CJR McClelland, B Nobert, TA Larsen… - Forest Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract In Alberta, Canada, mountain pine beetle (MPB) infestations overlap with
threatened caribou and grizzly bear ranges. While MPB is a natural part of the ecosystem …

Changing spring snow cover dynamics and early season forage availability affect the behavior of a large carnivore

GJM Rickbeil, NC Coops, EE Berman… - Global Change …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Changing climates are altering wildlife habitats and wildlife behavior in complex ways. Here,
we examine how changing spring snow cover dynamics and early season forage availability …

Aversive conditioning of grizzly bears produces high probabilities of retreat from human-bear conflict locations

C Edwards - 2024 - era.library.ualberta.ca
Claire Edwards Page 1 Aversive conditioning of grizzly bears produces high probabilities of
retreat from human- bear conflict locations by Claire Edwards A thesis submitted in partial …

Grizzly bear responses to restrictions of recreation in Yellowstone National Park

EA Loggers, AR Litt, FT van Manen… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Avoiding humans will be more difficult and energetically costly for animals as outdoor
recreation increases and people venture farther into wildland areas that provide high‐quality …

Brown Bear Food-Probability Models in West-European Russia: On the Way to the Real Resource Selection Function

SS Ogurtsov, AA Khapugin, AS Zheltukhin… - Forests, 2022 - mdpi.com
Most habitat suitability models and resource selection functions (RSFs) use indirect
variables and habitat surrogates. However, it is known that in order to adequately reflect the …

Disentangling the direct and indirect effects of canopy and understory vegetation on the foraging habitat selection of the brown bear Ursus arctos

K Tomita, T Hiura - Wildlife Biology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Elucidating the factors affecting the foraging habitat selection of wildlife can further our
understanding of the animal–habitat relationships and inform wildlife conservation and …

Grizzly bear response to translocation into a novel environment

GB Stenhouse, TA Larsen, CJR McClelland… - Wildlife …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Context To mitigate conservation conflicts, some jurisdictions translocate large carnivores
into novel environments where they have no previous experience. Behavioural responses of …