Behavioral and physiological responses of American black bears to landscape features within an agricultural region

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ditmer, M A ^a   Garshelis, D L ^a,b   Noyce, K V ^b   Laske, T G ^c,d   Iaizzo, P A ^d   Burk, T E ^a   Forester, J D ^a   Fieberg, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biologger; Crops; GPS; Habitat fragmentation; Heart rate; Landscape; Metabolism; Minnesota; Movement; Physiology; Stressors; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVENA; HELIANTHUS; URSUS AMERICANUS; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84926456459     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES14-00199.1     Document Type: Article

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