Aspects and Implications of Bear Reintroduction

Reintroduction of Top-Order Predators

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 126-145

  Clark, Joseph D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward bear reintroduction more negative with land use restrictions; Bear reintroduction aspects and implications; Evaluation of habitat at reintroduction site and identification of initial cause of population decline; Homing by translocated bears problematic; Homing, significant issue for American black bears Ursus americanus, and winter release techniques of females with cubs; Human dimensions and bears; Large carnivore re establishment important conservation goal; Reintroduction biology recognized field of conservation biology; Subtleties of bear behaviour locating food, communication and use of space and other resources; Top carnivore population restoration carnivores having disproportionately large effects on ecosystems

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052771741     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312034.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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