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Anthropogenic food: an emerging threat to polar bears
Oryx, 2023 Supplemental food from anthropogenic sources is a source of conflict with humans for many wildlife species. Food-seeking behaviours by black bears Ursus americanus and brown bears Ursus arctos can lead to property damage, human injury and mortality of ...
Tom S. Smith +7 more
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Bulls, Bears and Excess Volatility: can currency intervention help? [PDF]
, 2007 Asset mis-pricing may reflect investor psychology, with excess volatility arising from switches of sentiment. For a floating exchange rate where fundamentals follow a random walk, we show that excess volatility can be generated by the repeated entry and ...
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Bear bile use at the intersection of maternal health in Cambodia
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2020 Background The consumption of bear gallbladders and bear bile in Southeast Asia is a persistent threat to bear populations. As part of a larger effort to understand the characteristics of bear part consumption in Cambodia, we uncovered a consumer base of
Elizabeth Oneita Davis +3 more
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Black Bear Behavior and Movements Are Not Definitive Measures of Anthropogenic Food Use
Animals, 2023 Increasing human–bear conflicts are a growing concern, and managers often assume bears in developed areas are food-conditioned. We examined the relationship between human–bear conflicts and food conditioning by analyzing isotopic values of hair from ...
Don W. Hardeman +4 more
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Crystallization: Colloidal suspense [PDF]
, 2013 According to classical nucleation theory, a crystal grows from a small nucleus that already bears the symmetry of its end phase - but experiments with colloids now reveal that, from an amorphous precursor, crystallites with different structures can ...
Gránásy, László, Tóth, Gyula I.
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Ecosphere, 2017 Intrapopulation variability in resource acquisition (i.e., niche variation) influences population dynamics, with important implications for conservation planning.
Megan S. Adams +8 more
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Genomic evidence for island population conversion resolves conflicting theories of polar bear evolution. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2013 Despite extensive genetic analysis, the evolutionary relationship between polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and brown bears (U. arctos) remains unclear. The two most recent comprehensive reports indicate a recent divergence with little subsequent admixture ...
James A Cahill +10 more
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How a professionals slash writer disrupts readers' expectations [PDF]
, 2012 Professionals fandom is a fertile ground for AU stories. At face value, Rhiannon's The Larton Chronicles is a pleasant, cozy AU that bears only a token resemblance to the show that inspired it.
Wheeler, Sharon
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Bear presence attracts avian predators but does not impact lesser snow goose daily nest attendance
Journal of Avian Biology, 2022 The presence of foraging bears in Arctic breeding bird colonies has been increasingly reported in the literature, and these may constitute disturbance events which cause incubating birds to leave their nest.
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