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dc.contributor.authorBlanchet, Leslie
dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Boris
dc.contributor.authorStøen, Ole-Gunnar
dc.contributor.authorOrdiz, Andre
dc.contributor.authorLaske, Timothy G.
dc.contributor.authorArnemo, Jon Martin
dc.contributor.authorEvans, Alina
dc.coverage.spatialScandinavia, Skandinavianb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-09T07:06:53Z
dc.date.available2019-10-09T07:06:53Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn2050-3385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2621049
dc.description.abstractBackground: Understanding animal movement facilitates better management and conservation. The link between movement and physiology holds clues to the basic drivers of animal behaviours. In bears, heart rate increases with the metabolic rate during the active phase. Their movement and heart rate change at seasonal and daily scales, and can also depend on environmental factors. Their behaviour is, therefore, flexible in activity patterns with high individual variations. The aim of this study was to establish the relationship between heart rate and distance travelled, and test whether this relationship was influenced by environmental (e.g., time of year and time of day) and biological (e.g., reproductive status, sex, body mass and age of the bears) factors. We analysed data of distance travelled and heart rate of 15 GPS-collared brown bears, both males and females, equipped with cardiac loggers in the south of Sweden in 2014–2017. Results: Heart rate increased with distances travelled exceeding 50 m in an hour, but this correlation depended on the day-of-year with higher heart rate in August than in May. Bears accompanied by cubs had lower heart rate than solitary bears especially in May. When movement was minimum (< 50 m in an hour), heart rate was not related to distance travelled and was very variable, regardless of the months. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that heart rate increases with long distances travelled, but varies with day-of-year and reproductive status, depending on the metabolic rate. Studying the change in heart rate in bears can help to evaluate their seasonal rhythms and how different factors affect them. This study illustrates the usefulness of combined bio-logging proxies, i.e., movement and heart rates in our case, in animal ecology.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no*
dc.subjectDistance travellednb_NO
dc.subjectGPS positionsnb_NO
dc.subjectCardiac bio-loggernb_NO
dc.subjectSeasonal variationnb_NO
dc.subjectReproductive statusnb_NO
dc.titleMovement and heart rate in the Scandinavian brown bear (Ursus arctos)nb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.rights.holder© The Author(s) 2019.nb_NO
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Zoologiske og botaniske fag: 480nb_NO
dc.source.volume7nb_NO
dc.source.journalAnimal Biotelemetrynb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s40317-019-0181-7
dc.identifier.cristin1728631


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