Annual and seasonal home range characteristics of female Asiatic black bears in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan

• Published in: Ursus (International Association for Bear Research and Management) Vol. 23; no. 2; pp. 218 - 225
• Main Authors: Yamamoto, Toshiaki, Tamatani, Hiroo, Tanaka, Junpei, Yokoyama, Shotaro, Kamiike, Kumiko, Koyama, Masaru, Seki, Kanako, Kakefuda, Sayoko, Kato, Yuko, Izawa, Natsumi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association for Bear Research and Management 02.11.2012; International Association for Bear Research and Management
• Subjects: Age; Asiatic black bear; Autumn; Bears; Black bears; Environmental conservation; GIS; Habitat conservation; Habitat Relationships; home range; Japan; overlap ratio; Prefectures; Range management; Research facilities; shift distance; Summer; telemetry; Ursus; Ursus thibetanus; Wildlife management

We characterized annual and seasonal home ranges (HR) of 27 female Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) during 2003–11 in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Mean annual HR size for bears calculated by the 95% fixed kernel method was 10.0 km2 (SD  =  8.5) and differed depending on the year. Howev...