Consequences of a sockeye salmon shortage for the brown bear in the basin of Lake Kurilskoe, Southern Kamchatka

• Published in: Nature Conservation Research
• Main Authors: Sergey A. Kolchin, Eugenia V. Volkova, Liya V. Pokrovskaya, Anna V. Zavadskaya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Fund for Support and Development of Protected Areas "Bear Land" 2021
• Subjects: abandoned bear cubs; cannibalism; commercial overfishing; oncorhynchus nerka; south kamchatka sanctuary; ursus arctos; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation; G; Kamchatka Peninsula; Ozernaya; Sockeye; Kamchatka; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.24189/ncr.2021.025; https://doaj.org/article/a22b98f993ff4848a37f91c2c7ebcc28

We studied the behavioural ecology of Ursus arctos (hereinafter – brown bear or bear) in the basin of Lake Kurilskoe (Kamchatka Peninsula) in the summer and autumn of 2017–2018. The aim of this study was a comparative assessment of the behaviour of brown bears with respect to the heterogeneity of tr...