Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos)
Abstract Background Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and heart r...
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crspringernat:10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7 2023-05-15T18:42:15+02:00 Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) Blanchet, Leslie Fuchs, Boris Støen, Ole-Gunnar Bergouignan, Audrey Ordiz, Andrés Laske, Timothy G. Arnemo, Jon M. Evans, Alina L. Norwegian Environmental Agency Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Research Council of Norway ERASMUS 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7 http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7.pdf http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7/fulltext.html en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Animal Biotelemetry volume 7, issue 1 ISSN 2050-3385 Computer Networks and Communications Instrumentation Animal Science and Zoology Signal Processing journal-article 2019 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7 2022-01-04T12:36:39Z Abstract Background Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and heart rate change at seasonal and daily scales, and can also depend on environmental factors. Their behaviour is, therefore, flexible in activity patterns with high individual variations. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between heart rate and distance travelled, and test whether this relationship was influenced by environmental (e.g., time of year and time of day) and biological (e.g., reproductive status, sex, body mass and age of the bears) factors. We analysed data of distance travelled and heart rate of 15 GPS-collared brown bears, both males and females, equipped with cardiac loggers in the south of Sweden in 2014–2017. Results Heart rate increased with distances travelled exceeding 50 m in an hour, but this correlation depended on the day-of-year with higher heart rate in August than in May. Bears accompanied by cubs had lower heart rate than solitary bears especially in May. When movement was minimum (< 50 m in an hour), heart rate was not related to distance travelled and was very variable, regardless of the months. Conclusions Our findings suggest that heart rate increases with long distances travelled, but varies with day-of-year and reproductive status, depending on the metabolic rate. Studying the change in heart rate in bears can help to evaluate their seasonal rhythms and how different factors affect them. This study illustrates the usefulness of combined bio-logging proxies, i.e., movement and heart rates in our case, in animal ecology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos Springer Nature (via Crossref) Animal Biotelemetry 7 1 |
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Abstract Background Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and heart rate change at seasonal and daily scales, and can also depend on environmental factors. Their behaviour is, therefore, flexible in activity patterns with high individual variations. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between heart rate and distance travelled, and test whether this relationship was influenced by environmental (e.g., time of year and time of day) and biological (e.g., reproductive status, sex, body mass and age of the bears) factors. We analysed data of distance travelled and heart rate of 15 GPS-collared brown bears, both males and females, equipped with cardiac loggers in the south of Sweden in 2014–2017. Results Heart rate increased with distances travelled exceeding 50 m in an hour, but this correlation depended on the day-of-year with higher heart rate in August than in May. Bears accompanied by cubs had lower heart rate than solitary bears especially in May. When movement was minimum (< 50 m in an hour), heart rate was not related to distance travelled and was very variable, regardless of the months. Conclusions Our findings suggest that heart rate increases with long distances travelled, but varies with day-of-year and reproductive status, depending on the metabolic rate. Studying the change in heart rate in bears can help to evaluate their seasonal rhythms and how different factors affect them. This study illustrates the usefulness of combined bio-logging proxies, i.e., movement and heart rates in our case, in animal ecology. |
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Blanchet, Leslie Fuchs, Boris Støen, Ole-Gunnar Bergouignan, Audrey Ordiz, Andrés Laske, Timothy G. Arnemo, Jon M. Evans, Alina L. |
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Blanchet, Leslie Fuchs, Boris Støen, Ole-Gunnar Bergouignan, Audrey Ordiz, Andrés Laske, Timothy G. Arnemo, Jon M. Evans, Alina L. |
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Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) |
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Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) |
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Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) |
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Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) |
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Movement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos) |
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