USING BLACK BEARS TO TEST IDEAL-FREE DISTRIBUTION MODELS EXPERIMENTALLY

By J. Beckmann, J. Berger. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

• Rapid ecological and behavioural changes in carnivores: the responses of black bears (Ursus americanus) to altered food (2003, background): “In western North America for example, the presence of garbage in suburbs has led to a tremendous recent increase in the number of conflicts between humans and black bears Ursus americanus (e.g. Beckmann, 2002; Beckmann & Berger, 2003).”
• Ultimate and proximate mechanisms underlying the occurrence of bears close to human settlements: review and management implications (2014, unknown): “Beckmann and Berger (2003) described a despotic distribution in black bears: bears near settlements occurred at higher densities, had larger body mass, smaller home ranges, higher fecundity and shorter denning periods than bears in more remote areas.”
• Making habitat selection more “familiar”: a review (2011, background): “The ideal free model has been reported to predict habitat selection well in a variety of animals, especially at the landscape level (e.g., Hamback et al. 1998; Weidinger 2000; Beckmann and Berger 2003; Rieger et al. 2004).”
• Lasting behavioural responses of brown bears to experimental encounters with humans (2013, background): “Black bears Ursus americanus (Pallas 1780) accessing garbage near human settlements were heavier than their wildland conspecifics and had higher densities and fecundity; ultimately, there was a human-induced redistribution of the population in the landscape (Beckmann & Berger 2003).”
• Berry production drives bottom – up effects on body mass and reproductive success in an omnivore (2018, background): “Our strong evidence is surprising, given that bears have the digestive capacity and behavioral plasticity to fall back on other food resources when one is scarce (Beckmann and Berger 2003).”
• Going into the 21St century: a perspective on trends and controversies in the management of the American black bear (2007, background): “A Nevada study attributed many traits of urban-interface bears to the availabil ity of human foods, including the 70-90% smaller home ranges, 30% greater body mass, higher re productive success, and later denning and slightly earlier emergence than wildland bears (Beckmann and Berger 2003a, b).”
• Evaluation of deterrent techniques and dogs to alter behavior of “nuisance” black bears (2004, background): “Further, desert basins often are large areas of unsuitable desert habitat (e.g., large expanses of sagebrush [Artemesia spp.]) that bears do not use (Goodrich 1990, Beckmann 2002, Beckmann and Berger 2003a).”
• Socially learned foraging behaviour in wild black bears, Ursus americanus (2008, background): “It is essential for overwinter survival and is correlated with both younger age of reproductive maturity and larger litters (Beckman & Berger 2003).”
• Food availability and foraging near human developments by black bears (2013, background): “Indeed, it has been reported that black bears shift their activity patterns to forage at night within urban areas (Ayres et al. 1986; Beckmann and Berger 2003a), presumably to avoid encounters with humans.”
• Shifting perceptions of risk and reward: Dynamic selection for human development by black bears in the western United States (2015, background): “Beckmann and Berger (2003b) similarly suggested that increased use of urban areas could lead to a shift in the bear distribution on the landscape, causing a perceived increase in bear numbers.”
• Foraging ecology of black bears in urban environments: guidance for human‐bear conflict mitigation (2015, background): “However, patterns differed for urban black bears in the Lake Tahoe region where bears continued to forage on anthropogenic resources regardless of natural food availability (Beckmann and Berger 2003b).”