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Human recreation impacts seasonal activity and occupancy of American black bears (Ursus americanus) across the anthropogenic-wildland interface

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Protected areas serve an important role in wildlife conservation, yet most wildlife occur outside these areas, subject to varying degrees of human disturbance.
Tru Hubbard   +2 more
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Estimating grizzly and black bear population abundance and trend in Banff National Park using noninvasive genetic sampling. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2012
We evaluated the potential of two noninvasive genetic sampling methods, hair traps and bear rub surveys, to estimate population abundance and trend of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and black bear (U.
Michael A Sawaya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Temporomandibular Joint Pathology of Wild Carnivores in the Western USA

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021
Skull specimens from: southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis), Eastern Pacific harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), California sea lion (Zalophus californianus), northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus), walrus (Odobenus rosmarus), polar bear (Ursus maritimus)
Siobhan S. Rickert   +2 more
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American Black Bear–Apiary Conflicts in Michigan

open access: yesHuman-Wildlife Interactions, 2017
American black bear (Ursus americanus) damage to apiaries can result in substantial economic loss. We used records of black–bear apiary conflicts collected by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to characterize damage in the Upper and Northern ...
Beverly K. McKinley   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bearing Black [PDF]

open access: yesJournal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 2013
In this essay I critically examine the idea of race in light of the killing of Trayvon Martin, an African-American unarmed teenager, in Florida in February 2012. I utilize ideas from liberation psychology, including psychic colonization, and depth psychology, including cultural complex, to explore the racialized black as a colonized, traumatized other.
openaire   +3 more sources

Do Small Canopy Gaps Created by Japanese Black Bears Facilitate Fruiting of Fleshy-Fruited Plants? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Japanese black bears often break branches when climbing trees and feeding on fruit in canopies, thereby creating small canopy gaps. However, the role of black bear-created canopy gaps has not been evaluated in the context of multiple forest dynamics. Our
Kazuaki Takahashi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human-black bear conflict: crop raiding by Asiatic black bear (Ursus thibetanus) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Biology, 2022
Asiatic black bear has long been in conflict with human beings crop raiding is a major cause of this conflict frequently noted in South Asia. Crops raided by black bears affected by temporal, spatial and anthropogenic attributes. Insight in this conflict
U. Ali   +14 more
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Building Bear Fences for Your Apiary

open access: yesEDIS, 2021
The American black bear is beloved, but it is also the most damaging vertebrate pest of honey bee apiaries in North America. That is in part because bears and beekeepers often share the same home territory.
Kimberly K. Post, Cameron Jack
doaj   +5 more sources

Mode coupling in the nonlinear response of black holes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
We study the properties of the outgoing gravitational wave produced when a non-spinning black hole is excited by an ingoing gravitational wave. Simulations using a numerical code for solving Einstein's equations allow the study to be extended from the ...
C. Cutler   +35 more
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Human–bear conflict in Alaska: 1880–2015

open access: yesWildlife Society Bulletin, 2018
We present an analysis of human–bear (Ursus spp.) conflicts that occurred in Alaska, USA, from 1880 to 2015. We collected 682 human–bear conflicts, consisting of 61,226 data entries, from various sources available to us.
Tom S. Smith, Stephen Herrero
doaj   +1 more source

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