Estimating unrecorded human-caused mortalities of grizzly bears in the Flathead Valley, British Columbia, Canada

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: McLellan, Bruce N., Mowat, Garth, Lamb, Clayton T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ 2018
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5781; https://peerj.com/articles/5781.pdf; https://peerj.com/articles/5781.xml; https://peerj.com/articles/5781.html

Managing the number of grizzly bear ( Ursus arctos ) mortalities to a sustainable level is fundamental to bear conservation. All known grizzly bear deaths are recorded by management agencies but the number of human-caused grizzly bear deaths that are not recorded is generally unknown, causing consid...