Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.

Black bears (Ursus americanus) are an iconic and common species throughout much of the United States and people regularly interact with these large predators without conflict. However, negative interactions between people and bears can manifest in conflicts that can hinder conservation efforts. Blac...

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Autores principales:	Jason S Hagani, Sara M Kross, Michael Clark, Rae Wynn-Grant, Mary Blair
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1c475beddc014b59b5fa7b51bcaf61522021-12-02T20:08:05ZMapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0257716https://doaj.org/article/1c475beddc014b59b5fa7b51bcaf61522021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257716https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203Black bears (Ursus americanus) are an iconic and common species throughout much of the United States and people regularly interact with these large predators without conflict. However, negative interactions between people and bears can manifest in conflicts that can hinder conservation efforts. Black bears are highly attracted to anthropogenic sources of food, and negative interactions with people are primarily a product of trash mismanagement. In the Catskills region of New York State, home to a large population of black bears, over 400 such conflicts are reported each year. While the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has seen progress recently in educating residents of the region on how to reduce unwanted interactions with bears, they have had less success educating the 12 million tourists that visit the Catskills each year. Understanding where conflict may occur in the future, and the environmental and anthropogenic factors that precede it, may help guide management strategies to reduce these unwanted interactions. Therefore, we designed resource selection probability functions (RSPFs) to examine the relationship between human-black bear conflicts in the Catskills with a suite of landscape and anthropogenic data, using conflicts reported to the DEC across the state of New York in 2018-2019. We found that human-black bear conflicts were more likely to occur in the residential areas of the Catskills on the urban-wildland interface; areas with relatively higher human population densities, away from dense forest, and further from heavily urbanized areas. While future work is needed to continuously validate our model predictions, our results will provide the DEC and other conservation managers in the Catskills the ability to create more targeted plans for mitigating unwanted human-black bear interactions, and provide a better understanding of the mechanisms driving human-carnivore interactions at an urban-wildland interface more generally.Jason S HaganiSara M KrossMichael ClarkRae Wynn-GrantMary BlairPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 9, p e0257716 (2021)
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description	Black bears (Ursus americanus) are an iconic and common species throughout much of the United States and people regularly interact with these large predators without conflict. However, negative interactions between people and bears can manifest in conflicts that can hinder conservation efforts. Black bears are highly attracted to anthropogenic sources of food, and negative interactions with people are primarily a product of trash mismanagement. In the Catskills region of New York State, home to a large population of black bears, over 400 such conflicts are reported each year. While the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has seen progress recently in educating residents of the region on how to reduce unwanted interactions with bears, they have had less success educating the 12 million tourists that visit the Catskills each year. Understanding where conflict may occur in the future, and the environmental and anthropogenic factors that precede it, may help guide management strategies to reduce these unwanted interactions. Therefore, we designed resource selection probability functions (RSPFs) to examine the relationship between human-black bear conflicts in the Catskills with a suite of landscape and anthropogenic data, using conflicts reported to the DEC across the state of New York in 2018-2019. We found that human-black bear conflicts were more likely to occur in the residential areas of the Catskills on the urban-wildland interface; areas with relatively higher human population densities, away from dense forest, and further from heavily urbanized areas. While future work is needed to continuously validate our model predictions, our results will provide the DEC and other conservation managers in the Catskills the ability to create more targeted plans for mitigating unwanted human-black bear interactions, and provide a better understanding of the mechanisms driving human-carnivore interactions at an urban-wildland interface more generally.
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author	Jason S Hagani Sara M Kross Michael Clark Rae Wynn-Grant Mary Blair
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title	Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.
title_short	Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.
title_full	Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.
title_fullStr	Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.
title_full_unstemmed	Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.
title_sort	mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the catskills region of new york using resource selection probability functions.
publisher	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
publishDate	2021
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Mapping and modeling human-black bear interactions in the Catskills region of New York using resource selection probability functions.

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