Black bears alter movements in response to anthropogenic features with time of day and season

Abstract:
Background With the growth and expansion of human development, large mammals will increasingly encounter humans, elevating the likelihood of human-wildlife conflicts. Understanding the behavior and movement of large mammals, particularly around human development, is important for crafting effective conservation and management plans for these species. Methods We used GPS collar data from American black bears (Ursus americanus) to determine how seasonal food resources and human development affected bear movement patterns and resource use across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Results We found that though bears moved more and avoided human development during crepuscular and daylight hours than at night, bears preferentially moved through human dominated areas at night. This indicates bears were mitigating the risk of human development by altering their behavior to exploit these areas when human activity is low. This behavioral shift was most prominent in the spring, when natural foods are scarce, and fall, when energetic demands are high. We also observed a high degree of inter-individual variability among our sample of bears. Bears with a higher density of houses in their home ranges (~\u200975 houses/km2) displayed less avoidance of human development than more rural bears. Furthermore, bear movement models had different explanatory variables, with preference or avoidance of a variable being dependent on the individual bear. To account for this individuality in our predictive surfaces, we projected the probability of movement for each season and time of day using a spatially weighted surface centered on each bear’s home range. Conclusions We found that black bears in Massachusetts are operating in a landscape of fear and are altering their movement patterns to use developed areas when human activity is low. We also found seasonal and diel differences among individual bears in resource selection during movement. Accounting for these individual, seasonal, and diel differences when assessing movement for large mammals is especially important if predictive surfaces are to be used in identifying areas for conservation and management. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s40462-019-0166-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Author Listing: Katherine A. Zeller;David W. Wattles;Laura Conlee;Stephen DeStefano
Volume: 7
Pages: None
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-019-0166-4
Language: English
Journal: Movement Ecology

Movement Ecology

MOV ECOL

影响因子:3.4 是否综述期刊:否 是否OA:是 是否预警:不在预警名单内 发行时间:2013 ISSN:2051-3933 发刊频率:- 收录数据库:SCIE/Scopus收录/DOAJ开放期刊 出版国家/地区:United Kingdom 出版社:BioMed Central

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Movement Ecology is an open-access interdisciplinary journal publishing novel insights from empirical and theoretical approaches into the ecology of movement of the whole organism - either animals, plants or microorganisms - as the central theme. We welcome manuscripts on any taxa and any movement phenomena (e.g. foraging, dispersal and seasonal migration) addressing important research questions on the patterns, mechanisms, causes and consequences of organismal movement. Manuscripts will be rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure novelty and high quality.

《运动生态学》是一本开放获取的跨学科期刊,以从经验和理论方法对整个有机体--无论是动物、植物还是微生物--的运动生态学的新见解为中心主题。我们欢迎任何分类群和任何运动现象(如觅食、扩散和季节性迁移)的手稿,解决生物体运动的模式、机制、原因和后果等重要研究问题。手稿将经过严格的同行评审,以确保新奇性和高质量。

年发文量 72
国人发稿量 3
国人发文占比 4.17%
自引率 8.8%
平均录取率 -
平均审稿周期 23 Weeks
版面费 US$2590
偏重研究方向 Agricultural and Biological Sciences-Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
期刊官网 https://www.springer.com/journal/40462
投稿链接 https://www.editorialmanager.com/MOVE

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研究类文章占比 OA被引用占比 撤稿占比 出版后修正文章占比
93.06% 100.00% 0.00% 2.08%

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