Brown bear body mass and growth in northern and southern Europe
@article{Swenson2007BrownBB, title={Brown bear body mass and growth in northern and southern Europe}, author={J. Swenson and M. Adami{\vc} and D. Huber and Sigbj{\o}rn Stokke}, journal={Oecologia}, year={2007}, volume={153}, pages={37-47} }
We tested six hypotheses to explain expected geographical differences in body masses of 1,771 brown bears (Ursus arctos) from northern and southern Europe (Sweden and Norway compared with Slovenia and Croatia): Bergmann’s rule, the fasting endurance hypothesis, and the dietary meat hypothesis, which predicted larger bears in the north; and hypotheses stressing the role of high primary productivity, high population density, low seasonality, and length of the growing season, which predicted… CONTINUE READING
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