Effect of energy availability, seasonality, and geographic range on brown bear life history

By S. Ferguson, P. McLoughlin. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology

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1. A. Zedrosser
2. Jon E. Swenson
3. S. Ferguson
4. A. Derocher
5. F. Messier
6. P. McLoughlin
7. D. Miquelle
8. C. Carroll

Citations in the corpus

• Low site fidelity and home range drift in a wide-ranging, large Arctic omnivore (2009, background): “The low productivity and available protein, as well as the unpredictable interannual habitat quality found in Arctic environments, compared to regions further south or along the Pacific coast of North America (Hilderbrand et al. 1999; Ferguson & McLoughlin 2000; Mowat & Heard 2006), probably resul”
• Energy and nutrient fluxes from rivers and streams into terrestrial food webs (2006, background): “conspecifics without access to that resource (Nowak 1999; Ferguson and McLoughlin 2000).”
• A hierarchical pattern of limiting factors helps explain variation in home range size (2000, background): “For example, brown bear populations (Ursus arctos) with the largest average body mass are characterized by the smallest home ranges (McLoughlin et al., 1999; Ferguson & McLoughlin, 2000; Figure 2b).”
• Brown bear conservation and the ghost of persecution past (2011, background): “In brown bears there is a strong relationship between population density, habitat productivity, and energy availability (Ferguson and McLoughlin, 2000; Hilderbrand et al., 1999).”
• Intraspecific Variation in Home Range Overlap with Habitat Quality: A Comparison among Brown Bear Populations (2004, methodology): “We computed seasonality as the coe cient of variation (CV) among monthly actual evapotranspiration values (e.g., Zevelo and Boyce, 1988; Ferguson et al., 1996; Ferguson and McLoughlin, 2000).”
• Spatial viability analysis of Amur tiger Panthera tigris altaica in the Russian Far East: the role of protected areas and landscape matrix in population persistence (2006, background): “Abiotic factors such as climate and resulting gradients in productivity are typical limiting factors for carnivores at their northern range boundaries (Ferguson & McLoughlin 2000).”
• The mating system of the brown bear Ursus arctos (2012, background): “Reproductive parameters, such as average age of primiparity, mean litter size, mean litter interval, mean age of first weaning (Kovach et al. 2006), and reproductive rate, vary among populations (Ferguson & McLoughlin 2000, Nawaz et al. 2008; Table 1).”