Perceived risk, displacement and refuging in brown bears: Positive impacts of ecotourism?

• Published in: Biological Conservation
• Main Authors: Nevin, Owen T, Gilbert, Barrie K
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: Foraging; Infanticide; Oncorhynchus ssp; Predation; Ursus arctos; 050104 Landscape Ecology; 050202 Conservation and Biodiversity; 150601 Impacts of Tourism; Freed
• Online Access: http://hdl.cqu.edu.au/10018/1270013; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2004.06.011

Nevin, OT orcid:0000-0003-3513-8053 Ecotourism is a rapidly growing industry with unknown impacts on viewed wildlife that may require novel management action. We examined the impact of viewing activities on the behaviour of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in coastal British Columbia.Domination of the bes...