Data from: Complementary food resources of carnivory and frugivory affect local abundance of an omnivorous carnivore ...

• Main Authors: Nielsen, Scott E., Larsen, Terrence A., Stenhouse, Gordon B., Coogan, Sean C. P.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2016
• Subjects: Ursus arctos; resource co-limitation; nutritional landscape; Snag
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.771t4; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.771t4

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...