POPULATION DENSITY AND FOOD CONDITIONS DETERMINE ADULT FEMALE BODY SIZE IN BROWN BEARS

By A. Zedrosser, B. Dahle, Jon E. Swenson. 2006

124 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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In Ecology

1. O. Støen
2. Solve Sæbø
3. Jon E. Swenson
4. A. Zedrosser
5. Ian Stirling
6. K. Laidre
7. K. Rode
8. Sam Steyaert

In Global and Planetary Change

1. A. Zedrosser
2. Jon E. Swenson
3. Steve Wolverton
4. M. Huston
5. Ian Stirling
6. K. Laidre
7. K. Rode
8. F. Rosell

Citations in the corpus

• The mating system of the brown bear Ursus arctos (2012, background): “Older and larger males generally have higher annual reproductive success (Zedrosser et al. 2007a) than younger, smaller males.”
• Ultimate and proximate mechanisms underlying the occurrence of bears close to human settlements: review and management implications (2014, unknown): “Female brown bear body size increases with better food conditions and lower bear densities (Zedrosser et al. 2006), and homerange size decreases with increasing bear densities (Dahle & Swenson 2003b, Dahle et al. 2006).”
• No risk, no gain: effects of crop-raiding and genetic diversity on body size in male elephants (2011, unknown): “2003), whereas other studies have found no correlations between heterozygosity and size or growth rate (Curik et al. 2003; Overall et al. 2005; Zedrosser et al. 2006).”
• Regulation of animal size by eNPP, Bergmann's rule, and related phenomena (2011, background): “In addition, the inverse relationship between carnivore population density and carnivore body size at the intraspecific level is well known (e.g., Cavallini 1995, Carbone and Gittleman 2002, Zedrosser et al. 2006).”
• Should I stay or should I go? Natal dispersal in the brown bear (2007, methodology): “We used the locations of radiomarked bears, a correction to include the estimated number of subadult males, and data on growth rate of the population to calculate the individual density index as in the southern study area (Zedrosser et al. 2006).”
• Brown bear conservation and the ghost of persecution past (2011, background): “…on life-history parameters have been found repeatedly in ungulates (e.g. Albon et al., 1987; Skogland, 1989; Post et al., 1997; Festa-Bianchet et al., 2000) as well as in large carnivores (e.g. Dahle et al., 2006; Derocher and Stirling, 1995; Derocher and Wiig, 2002; Zedrosser et al., 2006).”
• A tale of two polar bear populations: ice habitat, harvest, and body condition (2011, background): “…shown to vary with annual sea ice conditions (Rode et al. 2010), and vary between populations of ursids that experience different environmental conditions (Derocher and Stirling 1998a; Zedrosser et al. 2006), skull width was included as an additional indicator of condition when data were available.”
• Brown bears possess anal sacs and secretions may code for sex (2011, background): “The study was conducted in Dalarna and Gävleborg counties in south-central Sweden (611N, 141E), within the south- ern part of the Scandinavian brown bear population (Sahlèn et al., 2007), and with a bear density at 30 bears/1000 km2 (Zedrosser et al., 2006).”