Increased stress in Asiatic black bears relates to food limitation, crop raiding, and foraging beyond nature reserve boundaries in China

Global Ecology and Conservation

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 267-276

  Malcolm, Karl D ^a,b,f   McShea, William J ^b   Garshelis, David L ^c   Luo, Shu Jin ^d   Van Deelen, Timothy R ^a   Liu, Fang ^e   Li, Sheng ^a,b,d   Miao, Lin ^d   Wang, Dajun ^d   Brown, Janine L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FORESTRY   (China)

^f U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fecal glucocorticoids; Mast; Poaching; Protected areas; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 84915766681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23519894     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2014.09.010     Document Type: Article

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