Brown Bear Food-Probability Models in West-European Russia: On the Way to the Real Resource Selection Function

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Sergey S. Ogurtsov, Anatoliy A. Khapugin, Anatoliy S. Zheltukhin, Elena B. Fedoseeva, Alexander V. Antropov, María del Mar Delgado, Vincenzo Penteriani
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2022
• Subjects: Central Forest State Nature Reserve; food resources; habitat suitability; MaxEnt; resource selection function; spatial distribution; Plant ecology; QK900-989; Malus; Alces alces; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/f13081247; https://doaj.org/article/51ee6602b8474fb6b8678dcebaf0aa97

Most habitat suitability models and resource selection functions (RSFs) use indirect variables and habitat surrogates. However, it is known that in order to adequately reflect the habitat requirements of a species, it is necessary to use proximal resource variables. Direct predictors should be used...