The diet of the brown bear Ursus arctos in the Pasvik Valley, northeastern Norway

By I. Persson, Steinar Wikan, Jon E. Swenson, I. Mysterud. Wildlife Biology, 2001

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Predation on Moose Calves by European Brown Bears (2007, background): “Moose might be important prey for brown bears in Eurasia, especially in the north (e.g., Zavatskii 1978, Danilov 1983, Dahle et al. 1998, Persson et al. 2001), but estimates of predation and kill rates are unavailable.”
Carnivory is Positively Correlated with Latitude among Omnivorous Mammals: Evidence from Brown Bears, Badgers and Pine Martens (2009, background): “…of food items were multiplied by their respective energy coefficients: 6.3 for graminoids, 8.4 for forbs, 11.7 for berries, potatoes and cereals, 18.8 for small vertebrates, 28.4 for large mammals (Dahle et al. 1998), 17.7 for insects (Swenson et al. 1999), 6.3 for mushrooms (Persson et al. 2001).”
Seasonality and human disturbance alter brown bear activity patterns: implications for circumpolar carnivore conservation? (2017, background): “During spring, ungulate calves are the most important food for Scandinavian brown bears (Dahle et al., 1998; Persson et al., 2001), with most of the predation on domestic reindeer Rangifer tarandus and moose Alces alces occurring during their first weeks of life in May and June respectively (Karlsso”