The changing anthropogenic diets of American black bears over the past century in Yosemite National Park

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 107-114

  Hopkins III, John B ^a,b,c,d   Koch, Paul L ^b   Ferguson, Jake M ^e   Kalinowski, Steven T ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BEAR; DIET; FEEDING; FEEDING ECOLOGY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; NATIONAL PARK; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; FOOD; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STABLE ISOTOPE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES; YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK;

URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 84903141293     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/130276     Document Type: Article

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