Diverse salmon populations enable 'resource surfing' bears to eat tons of fish

Diverse salmon populations enable 'resource surfing' bears to eat tons of fish

6 years ago
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https://phys.org/news/2018-07-diverse-salmon-populations-enable-resource.html

Worldwide, prolonged salmon availability is increasingly under threat from hatchery supplementation that tends to reduce the genetic diversity underpinning different spawning times. In addition, bears' ability to follow salmon waves is hampered by industrial development such as mining.

Findings were just published in Scientific Reports.