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Troublemaking carnivores: conflicts with humans in a diverse assemblage of large carnivores
Ecology and Society, 2017 Human-wildlife conflicts are a global conservation and management challenge. Multipredator systems present added complexity to the resolution of human-wildlife conflicts because mitigation strategies often are species-specific. Documenting the type and
Andrea T. Morehouse, Mark S. Boyce
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Yellowstone grizzly delisting rhetoric: An analysis of the online debate
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2013 The Yellowstone ecosystem is a hotbed of environmental issues and conflicts such as endangered species management. The Yellowstone grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) delisting debate illustrates how rhetoric can contribute to fragmentation and ...
Israel D. Parker +1 more
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Predator–prey co‐occurrence in harvest blocks: Implications for caribou and forestry
Conservation Science and Practice, 2022 Forest harvesting alters habitat, impacts wildlife, and disrupts ecosystem function. Across the boreal forest of Canada, forest harvesting affects ungulate prey species and their predators, with cascading impacts on other species, including threatened ...
Tracy L. McKay, Laura A. Finnegan
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, 2023 Polar bears Polar bears are large carnivorous mammals that inhabit the Arctic regions of the world. They are well adapted to living in a cold and icy environment, with thick fur, a layer of insulating blubber, and large, webbed paws that allow them to swim and walk on snow and ice.
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Are grizzly bear and brown bear the same?
, 2023 Similarities and differences between Grizzly and Brown bears Grizzly bear and brown bear are two of the most iconic bear species that are often confused as being the same. While they do share many similarities, they are actually two different subspecies of the same species, Ursus arctos.
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Novel range overlap of three ursids in the Canadian subarctic
Arctic Science, 2019 We describe for the first time in the peer-reviewed literature observations of American black bear (Ursus americanus Pallas, 1780), grizzly bear (Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758), and polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) at the same locations.
Douglas Andrew Clark +5 more
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Grizzly bear diet shifting on reclaimed mines
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Industrial developments and reclamation change habitat, possibly altering large carnivore food base. We monitored the diet of a low-density population of grizzly bears occupying a landscape with open-pit coal mines in Canada.
Bogdan Cristescu +2 more
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Population‐level monitoring of stress in grizzly bears between 2004 and 2014
Ecosphere, 2020 Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in west‐central Alberta occupy an increasingly human‐dominated landscape. Natural resource extraction activities are hypothesized to increase stress in animals that reside in such changing landscapes by influencing habitat ...
Abbey E. Wilson +6 more
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Ecosphere, 2016 Knowledge of carnivore nutritional requirements offers a potentially powerful aid for conservation and management strategies, yet has received little attention.
Sean C. P. Coogan, David Raubenheimer
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Human–bear conflict in Alaska: 1880–2015
Wildlife 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
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