Effects of roads and motorized human access on grizzly bear populations in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada

MF Proctor, BN McLellan, GB Stenhouse, G Mowat… - Ursus, 2020 - BioOne
The growing human footprint has placed unprecedented stressors on ecosystems in recent
decades resulting in losses of biodiversity and ecosystem function around the world. Roads …

Evolutionary and ecological traps for brown bears Ursus arctos in human‐modified landscapes

V Penteriani, MDM Delgado, M Krofel, K Jerina… - Mammal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary traps, and their derivative, ecological traps, occur when animals make
maladaptive decisions based on seemingly reliable environmental cues, and are important …

Forbidden fruit: human settlement and abundant fruit create an ecological trap for an apex omnivore

CT Lamb, G Mowat, BN McLellan… - Journal of Animal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Habitat choice is an evolutionary product of animals experiencing increased fitness when
preferentially occupying high‐quality habitat. However, an ecological trap (ET) can occur …

Testing for zero inflation in count models: Bias correction for the Vuong test

BA Desmarais, JJ Harden - The Stata Journal, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The proportion of zeros in event-count processes may be inflated by an additional
mechanism by which zeros are created. This has given rise to statistical models that …

Monitoring plant condition and phenology using infrared sensitive consumer grade digital cameras

W Nijland, R De Jong, SM De Jong, MA Wulder… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2014 - Elsevier
Consumer-grade digital cameras are recognized as a cost-effective method of monitoring
plant health and phenology. The capacity to use these cameras to produce time series …

Identifying indirect habitat loss and avoidance of human infrastructure by northern mountain woodland caribou

JL Polfus, M Hebblewhite, K Heinemeyer - Biological Conservation, 2011 - Elsevier
Understanding the impact of indirect habitat loss resulting from avoidance of human
infrastructure is an important conservation priority. We evaluated resource selection for 10 …

The impact of roads on the demography of grizzly bears in Alberta

J Boulanger, GB Stenhouse - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
One of the principal factors that have reduced grizzly bear populations has been the creation
of human access into grizzly bear habitat by roads built for resource extraction. Past studies …

A forest structure habitat index based on airborne laser scanning data

NC Coops, P Tompaski, W Nijland, GJM Rickbeil… - Ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Most efforts to link remote sensing to species distributions and movement have focused on
indirect estimates of traits based on components of physiological and functional biodiversity …

Testing umbrella species and food-web properties of large carnivores in the Rocky Mountains

R Steenweg, M Hebblewhite, C Burton… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite criticisms, the umbrella species concept remains a fundamental conservation tool
for protecting biodiversity in the face of global change, yet it is rarely tested. Food web theory …

Grizzly bear connectivity mapping in the Canada–United States trans‐border region

MF Proctor, SE Nielsen, WF Kasworm… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Fragmentation is a growing threat to wildlife worldwide and managers need solutions to
reverse its impacts on species' populations. Populations of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), often …