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Escaping Neobiota: Habitat use and avoidance by sloth bears in Jessore Sloth bear Sanctuary India
Trees, Forests and People, 2023 Global terrestrial ecosystem is threatened by several factors, such as infestation of invasive plants, which influence the habitat use by wildlife. Prosopis juliflora is such a plant species, sprawled over arid and semiarid ecosystems in India.
Jignesh Rot +3 more
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Using machine learning to predict habitat suitability of sloth bears at multiple spatial scales
Ecological Processes, 2021 Background Habitat resources occur across the range of spatial scales in the environment. The environmental resources are characterized by upper and lower limits, which define organisms’ distribution in their communities.
Tahir Ali Rather +2 more
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Notulae Scientia Biologicae, 2015 Characterisations of the Sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) diet during three distinguished seasons (monsoon, winter and summer) in the semi-arid region of western India was under study.
Tana P. MEWADA
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Hematology of Sloth Bears (Melursus ursinus ursinus) from Two Locations in India [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2008 Standard hematology parameters were determined for 122 sloth bears (Melursus ursinus ursinus) at the Sur Sarovar Bird Sanctuary, Uttar Pradesh, India (27 degrees 0'N; 77 degrees 45'E), and the Bannerghatta Biological Park, Karnataka, India (12 degrees 48'N; 77 degrees 34'E) from March 2003 to July 2006.
Arun Attur, Shanmugam +3 more
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Investigating Co-occurrence among Look-alike Species: The Case of Three Bears in Northeast India
Diversity, 2022 At the most basic level, the assessment of a species’ status involves knowing where it occurs. Determining the presence of rare species is difficult, and can be further confounded by the presence of a more common look-alike species.
David L. Garshelis +3 more
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Ursids evolved early and continuously to be low-protein macronutrient omnivores
Scientific Reports, 2022 The eight species of bears world-wide consume a wide variety of diets. Some are specialists with extensive anatomical and physiological adaptations necessary to exploit specific foods or environments [e.g., polar bears (Ursus maritimus), giant pandas ...
Charles T. Robbins +7 more
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Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2013 We used information from systematic camera trapping surveys to study activity patterns of sloth bear (Melursus ursinus) in Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Western Ghats during November 2009 to April 2010.Overall 61 independent photographs were obtained from ...
T. Ramesh +3 more
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Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 The impact of humans on biodiversity, in the form of the spatially extensive occurrence of humans and subsequent habitat degradation, leads to negative interactions between humans and native wildlife.
Sankarshan Chaudhuri +6 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 Managing human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) in human-dominated habitats is an important issue in wildlife conservation. Understanding and addressing local people’s attitudes and behaviours toward HWC is thought to be imperative for successful human-wildlife ...
Sayantani M. Basak +3 more
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The need to step-up monitoring of Asian bears
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Many wildlife species are threatened in Asia, including the five species of terrestrial bears (Asiatic black, Ursus thibetanus; brown, U. arctos; sloth, Melursus ursinus; sun, Helarctos malayanus; giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca): many populations of
David L. Garshelis +6 more
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