Foraging strategies by omnivores: Are black bears actively searching for ungulate neonates or are they simply opportunistic predators?

Ecography

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 588-596

  Bastille Rousseau, Guillaume ^a   Fortin, Daniel ^a   Dussault, Christian ^b   Courtois, Réhaume ^b   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEAR; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENCOUNTER RATE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HARVESTING; NEONATE; OMNIVORY; PATCH DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREY CAPTURE; PREY LOCATION; PREY SELECTION; RESIDENCE TIME; RESOURCE SELECTION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNGULATE; VEGETATION COVER;

ANIMALIA; CONIFEROPHYTA; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 79960626812     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06517.x     Document Type: Article

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