Complementary food resources of carnivory and frugivory affect local abundance of an omnivorous carnivore

• Published in: Oikos
• Main Authors: Nielsen, Scott E., Larsen, Terrence A., Stenhouse, Gordon B., Coogan, Sean C. P.
• Other Authors: University of Alberta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Canada; Snag; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.03144; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Foik.03144; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/oik.03144

A major unresolved question for omnivorous carnivores, like most species of bears, is to what degree are populations influenced by bottom–up (food supply) or top–down (human‐caused mortality) processes. Most previous work on bear populations has focused on factors that limit survival (top–down) assu...