Seasonal and diel movement patterns of brown bears in a population in southeastern Europe.

ABSTRACT: Most animals concentrate their movement into certain hours of the day depending on drivers such as photoperiod, ambient temperature, inter- or intraspecific competition, and predation risk. The main activity periods of many mammal species, especially in human-dominated landscapes, are commonly set at dusk, dawn, and during nighttime hours. Large carnivores, such as brown bears, often display great flexibility in diel movement patterns throughout their range, and even within populations, striking between individual differences in movement have been demonstrated. Here, we evaluated how seasonality and reproductive class affected diel movement patterns of brown bears of the Dinaric-Pindos and Carpathian bear populations in Serbia. We analyzed the movement distances and general probability of

SUBMITTER: Bogdanovic N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8601923 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature