Habitat features mediate selective consumption of salmon by bears

• Main Authors: Andersson, Luke C., Reynolds, John D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2017
• Subjects: British Columbia; Canada; Keta; Pacific; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/81400; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0055

Salmon provide a key source of marine-derived nutrients to aquatic and surrounding terrestrial habitats in coastal areas of the North Pacific. Bears are a major predator of salmon and provide an important pathway for carcass transfer to riparian zones. We studied selective consumption of salmon (Onc...