Data from: Sociodemographic factors modulate the spatial response of brown bears to vacancies created by hunting ...

• Main Authors: Frank, Shane C., Leclerc, Martin, Pelletier, Fanie, Rosell, Frank, Swenson, Jon E., Bischof, Richard, Kindberg, Jonas, Eiken, Hans Geir, Hagen, Snorre B., Zedrosser, Andreas, Swenson, Jon. E.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: harvest; Social structure; Ursus arctos; kinship; spatial reorganization; spatial response
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.m7m8n; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.m7m8n

1.There is a growing recognition of the importance of indirect effects from hunting on wildlife populations, e.g., social and behavioral changes due to harvest, which occur after the initial offtake. Nonetheless, little is known about how the removal of members of a population influences the spatial configuration of the survivors. 2.We studied how surviving brown bears (Ursus arctos) used former home ranges that had belonged to casualties of the annual bear hunting season in southcentral Sweden (2007-2015). We used resource selection functions to explore the effects of the casualty's and survivor's sex, age, and their pairwise genetic relatedness, population density, and hunting intensity on survivors’ spatial responses to vacated home ranges. 3.We tested the competitive release hypothesis, whereby survivors that increase their use of a killed bear's home range are presumed to have been released from intraspecific competition. We found strong support for this hypothesis, as survivors of the same sex as the ... : model dataAll numeric variables have been scaled and centered around zero.data.txt ...