Individual home range and daily movements of the male brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the middle taiga of Yakutia based on the results of GPS satellite collars
https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2023-28-2-303-311
Abstract
The global navigation system allowed us to study the ecology of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Yakutia, its space use, and movements. Data on the activity of brown bear in the territory of the region after leaving the den are presented for the first time. The study period lasted for 55 days, during which we obtained 1424 locations and collected information on 52 daily scale movements of brown bear using a satellite collar. Analysis of the data showed that the area of the spring-summer home range of an adult male brown bear, calculated using the method of the minimum convex polygon with inclusion of 100% locations, was 463 km². According to the fixed core method, the size of the home range area was 354.2 km², including a core area size of 33.5 km². On average, a male brown bear moved 11.8 km per day for the entire tracking period (limit of 0.95-28.5 km). The highest indicators of the daily run by male brown bear were registered in the first (15.3±1.79 km) and second (15.5±1.68 km) ten days in June compared to other months.
Keywords
brown bear,
home range,
satellite tracking,
spatial distribution,
diurnal variation,
diurnal activity
Supporting agencies: This study was carried out within the framework of the state assignment of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation under the project “Populations and communities of animals in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems of the permafrost zone of the eastern sector of the Russian Arctic and Subarctic: diversity, structure and stability under natural and anthropogenic impacts” (project number: 0297-2021-0044, registration number: 121020500194-9). The authors are grateful to I.M. Okhlopkov, Director, IBPC SB RAS, E.A. Nikolaev, Head of the Bappagaisky Nasleg, E.E. Syromyatnikov, Senior Inspector, Mirny Committee for Nature Conservation, for organizing and carrying out trapping and marking with a satellite collar of a brown bear, R.A. Kirillin, Research Engineer, IBPC SB RAS, for technical support of the project.
About the Author
N. V. MAMAEV
Institute for Biological Problems of the Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MAMAEV, Nikolai Viktorovich, Junior Researcher
ResearcherID: R-7952-2018, ScopusID: 57191052875
Yakutsk
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MAMAEV N.V. Individual home range and daily movements of the male brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the middle taiga of Yakutia based on the results of GPS satellite collars. Arctic and Subarctic Natural Resources. 2023;28(2):303-311. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31242/2618-9712-2023-28-2-303-311
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