Title
Using black bears (Ursus americanus) to test ideal-free distribution models experimentally.
Author(s)
Jon Beckmann and Joel Berger
Published
2003
Publisher
Journal of Mammalogy
Abstract
A study that reveals the impact of urban areas and associated food resource - garbage - on the distribution and demographics of black bears compared to their wildlands counterparts, based on research at the urban–wildland interface and wildland areas at the interface of the Sierra Nevada Range and Great Basin Desert in western North America.
Keywords
black bears, Great Basin, ideal-despotic distribution, ideal-free distribution, Sierra Nevada, urban interface
Full Citation
Beckmann, J. P., and J. Berger. 2003. Using black bears (Ursus americanus) to test ideal-free distribution models experimentally. Journal of Mammalogy 84(2):594-606.

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