Alaskan brown bears ( Ursus arctos) aggregate and display fidelity to foraging neighborhoods while preying on Pacific salmon along small streams

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Wirsing, Aaron J., Quinn, Thomas P., Cunningham, Curry J., Adams, Jennifer R., Craig, Apryle D., Waits, Lisette P.
• Other Authors: University of Washington, University of Idaho
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2018
• Subjects: Huggins; Pacific; Sockeye; Ursus arctos; Alaska
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4431; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fece3.4431; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.4431

Abstract The interaction between brown bears ( Ursus arctos ) and Pacific salmon ( Oncorhynchus spp.) is important to the population dynamics of both species and a celebrated example of consumer‐mediated nutrient transport. Yet, much of the site‐specific information we have about the bears in this r...