Covering the ecology and behaviour of North American black bears, this volume discusses such topics as: home ranges and home range estimators; predicting habitat quality and use of home ranges; food abundance and variation in home range size; and territories and home ranges.
What main factors affect mammalian home-range and dynamics? To what extent do constraints on home range characteristics vary between the sexes? This book aims to address these issues by concentrating the authors' expertise and experience in studies of home ranges in general and...