Black bear (Ursus americanus)
Temporal variation in food habits of the American Black Bear ( Ursus americanus ) in the boreal forest of northern Ontario
... American Black Bear (Ursus americanus) in the boreal forest of northern ...American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in the boreal forest of northern ...American ...
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Resident Perceptions of Black Bear Management in South Central Kentucky
... American black bear ( Ursus americanus ) pop- ulation have been observed and monitored in the past two decades, especially in south-central ...human-black bear interaction and ...
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Habitat-Distribution Modeling of a Recolonizing Black Bear, Ursus americanus , Population in the Trans-Pecos Region of Texas
... Although sighting data have been used in many stud- ies, there is still a stigma attached to such data. How useful are they? Often there is a strong locational bias, with higher sampling rates in the most accessible ...
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A complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Asian black bear Sichuan subspecies (Ursus thibetanus mupinensis)
... Americas black bear (Ursus ameri- canus), polar bear (Ursus maritimus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) in 2002 ...Asian black bear mitochondria individual ...
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Protecting Biodiversity through Monitoring of Management Indicator Species: Questioning Designations of Ursus Americanus (black bear) and Plethodon jordani (Jordan's salamander)
... for black bears in the southern Appalachians based on available ...to black bears that revolved around three requirements of the black bear: food, den areas, and cover for escape (Zimmerman, ...
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Ecology of American Black Bears in an Urban Environment.
... female black bears (Ursus americanus) within the city of Asheville, North Carolina, and in 3 nearby forested, rural ...on black bears indicates that females generally produce litters for the ...
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Platelet function in brown bear (Ursus arctos) compared to man
... (black bear, Ursus americanus, observation [5]), or decubitus ulcer (authors ...brown bear sustains a body temperature (31-35°C) near normal during hibernation ...
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Factors Influencing the Abundance of Berry Plants for Black Bears, Ursus americanus , in Quebec
... the Black Bear’s diet has been described in three main studies (Boileau et ...range, Black Bears have a tendency to eat berries according to ...by Black Bears were serviceberries (Ame - lanchier ...
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Implications of the variable availability of seasonal foods on the home ranges of black bears, Ursus americanus, in the Sierra Nevada of California
... Background: Sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana) seeds and oak (Quercus spp.) acorns are both important fall food sources for a variety of wildlife in the Sierra Nevada, but both have variable mast production and are in ...
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Parathyroid hormone may maintain bone formation in hibernating black bears (Ursus americanus) to prevent disuse osteoporosis
... formation (Li et al., 2005; Yang Li et al., 2005). Likewise, high bone turnover occurs in patients with spinal cord injury, which leads to bone loss and increased fracture incidence (Modlesky et al., 2005; Pitsillides et ...
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Effects of body size on male mating tactics and paternity in black bears, Ursus americanus
... Abstract: The reproductive behaviour of large, solitary mammals is difficult to study. Owing to their secretive nature and wide-ranging habits, aspects of male mating behaviour are poorly documented in solitary than in ...
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Blood chemistry reference intervals of captive Asiatic black bears ( Ursus thibetanus
... The values of TP, ALB and Hb in young bears were lower than those in adults during non-hi- bernation, while there were no differences during hibernation. This seems to be due to the differ- ences in primary foods and ...
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Serological signature of tick borne pathogens in Scandinavian brown bears over two decades
... Mammalian hosts differ substantially in their ability to maintain systemic infections with Borrelia pathogens [71]. Competent hosts, such as rodents, can maintain long-lived, chronic infections in their tissues [72, 73]. ...
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Home range, movements, and denning chronology of the Grizzly Bear ( Ursus arctos ) in west-central Alberta
... Denning is believed to have evolved as a mechanism to endure periods with little food (Manchi and Swen- son 2005); however, the triggers that cause a Grizzly Bear to enter and leave a den are not fully understood ...
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Blood clotting behavior is innately modulated in Ursus americanus during early and late denning relative to summer months
... each bear was continuously monitored for anesthetic status while morphological and physiological measurements were ...each bear was returned to its original location (den site or holding ...
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Decreasing brown bear (Ursus arctos) habitat due to climate change in Central Asia and the Asian Highlands
... brown bear conservation in Central Asia, because it may result in bears moving out of protected area due to climate-in- duced range shift (Upward and ...to bear models will help to understand top-down ...
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Wildlife trade 2009. An analysis of the European Community and candidate countries annual reports to CITES
... Species Showing Noteworthy Patterns of Trade North American Otter Brown Bear Lontra canadensis Ursus arctos Criteria met: high volume Principal trade term to EU: skins Percentage of glob[r] ...
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Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) locomotion: forelimb joint mechanics across speed in the sagittal and frontal planes
... Segment inertial properties were modelled using cylinders, with limb segment densities estimated from Winter (1990). Segment dimensions were calculated from a CT scan of a grizzly bear forelimb (4 year old male; ...
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COMMENCEMENT ’90: A Historic Occasion: Beating the Odds
... to bear throughout our Black sojourn in America. And let’s bear and overcome it as we’ve always ...of Black families to point fingers at Blacks or think that it is just Black children ...
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Paternal phylogeographic structure of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in northeastern Asia and the effect of male-mediated gene flow to insular populations
... brown bear migration between these ...high bear density may have induced these males to exhibit more sedentary behavior than in other areas and restricted male-mediated gene flow into this ...
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