S2 Fig. Map of showing the posterior density of grizzly bear activity centres from 2006 through 2008 in Banff National Park, AB, Canada. The spatial distribution of activity centers was influenced by the distribution of traps across the study area and the locations of observed bear detections. open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which per...

Human contact with bears has become more frequent, as has the resultant bear maulings and bite injuries. We report the bacteriology of a patient bitten by a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) from the Rocky Mountains foothills area east of Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. The patient received field care, including metronidazole and cefazolin. Subsequent deep-wound cultures grew Serratia fonticola...

The skull of a small, young adult grizzly bear was discovered in the course of archaeological excavation of an early historic Eskimo house in northern Labrador. This discovery confirms the rumoured presence of Ursus arctm in Labrador in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is suggested that the Labrador grizzly represents an eastward extension of the barren-ground grizzly population acro...

While the location of wildlife mortalities provides some insight on cause death, identifying risk factors associated with mortality events and in which cases these result death requires information individual behaviour prior to death. With access a long-term database grizzly bear ( Ursus arctos L., 1758) GPS locations, we investigated how differed between individuals that died anthropogenic cau...

Metrics used to quantify the condition or physiological states of individuals provide proactive mechanisms for understanding population dynamics in the context of environmental factors. Our study examined how anthropogenic disturbance, habitat characteristics and hair cortisol concentrations interpreted as a sex-specific indicator of potential habitat net-energy demand affect the body condition...

Changes in life history traits of species can be an important indicator of potential factors influencing populations. For grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE), recent decline of whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis), an important fall food resource, has been paired with a slowing of population growth following two decades of robust population increase. These ...

Forest harvesting alters habitat, impacts wildlife, and disrupts ecosystem function. Across the boreal forest of Canada, affects ungulate prey species their predators, with cascading on other species, including threatened woodland caribou. We used camera vegetation data occupancy modeling to investigate what characteristics in around forestry harvest blocks influenced co-occurrence primary (elk...