[HTML][HTML] Toxic elements in arctic and sub-arctic brown bears: Blood concentrations of As, Cd, Hg and Pb in relation to diet, age, and human footprint

B Fuchs, K Joly, GV Hilderbrand, AL Evans… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Contamination with arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), mercury (Hg) and lead (Pb) is a global
concern impairing resilience of organisms and ecosystems. Proximity to emission sources …

Characteristics of fruits consumed by mammalian frugivores in Japanese temperate forest

S Koike, T Masaki - Ecological Research, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the interactions among fruits and frugivore assemblages provides
fundamental information for the management of ecosystems. Asian temperate forests are …

Response to human-modified landscape of an apex consumer: Sex-and season-related variations in road selection and movement pattern

SY Baek, A Shimazaki, A Zedrosser… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The recovery of apex consumers increases the need for coexistence efforts, and it is
important to understand how apex consumers respond to human-modified landscapes …

[PDF][PDF] HOME RANGE, MOBILITY AND HIBERNATION OF BROWN BEARS (URSUS ARCTOS, URSIDAE) IN AREAS WITH SUPPLEMENTARY FEEDING

ВР Тодоров, ДП Златанова… - Nature Conservation …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Supplementary feeding, although a common practice, is seldom studied in terms of its effect
on non-targeted species, such as the brown bear (Ursus arctos). We conducted a GPS-GSM …

Exploring the potential of brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) as a long-distance seed disperser: a pilot study in South-Western Europe

A Lalleroni, PY Quenette, T Daufresne, M Pellerin… - Mammalia, 2017 - degruyter.com
Plant dispersal is crucial to maintaining plant community dynamics, especially in the current
context of rapid environmental changes such as global warming and landscape …

Whitebark pine, population density, and home-range size of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

DD Bjornlie, FT Van Manen, MR Ebinger… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Changes in life history traits of species can be an important indicator of potential factors
influencing populations. For grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Greater Yellowstone …

Estimating the seasonal energy balance in Asian black bears and associated factors

S Furusaka, K Tochigi, K Yamazaki, T Naganuma… - …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Energy balance (ie, energy intake minus energy expenditure) is an essential factor when
evaluating an animal's nutritional state. We aimed to identify periods of the year that are …

Influence of whitebark pine decline on fall habitat use and movements of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

CM Costello, FT Van Manen… - Ecology and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
When abundant, seeds of the high‐elevation whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis) are an
important fall food for grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem …

Measuring the realized niches of animals using stable isotopes: from rats to bears

JB Hopkins III, CM Kurle - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Stable isotope analysis is a powerful method for estimating the impacts animals have on
their environment (resource use), revealing their ecological niches. We demonstrated the …

Conservation implications of sex‐specific landscape suitability for a large generalist carnivore

M Gantchoff, L Conlee, J Belant - Diversity and Distributions, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Terrestrial mammal distribution models typically do not differentiate between sexes
when making spatial predictions, which could have important conservation implications. As …