Managing brown bears and wilderness recreation on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA

Michael J. Jacobs; Catherine A. Schloeder

doi:10.1007/bf02393830

Managing brown bears and wilderness recreation on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA

Environmental Management ◽

10.1007/bf02393830 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 249-254 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michael J. Jacobs ◽

Catherine A. Schloeder

Keyword(s):

Brown Bears ◽

Kenai Peninsula ◽

Wilderness Recreation

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Identification of functional corridors with movement characteristics of brown bears on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Landscape Ecology ◽

10.1007/s10980-007-9082-x ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 22 (5) ◽

pp. 765-772 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Tabitha A. Graves ◽

Sean Farley ◽

Michael I. Goldstein ◽

Christopher Servheen

Keyword(s):

Brown Bears ◽

Kenai Peninsula ◽

Movement Characteristics

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Genetic characterization of Kenai brown bears (Ursus arctos): microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA control region variation in brown bears of the Kenai Peninsula, south central Alaska

Canadian Journal of Zoology ◽

10.1139/z08-043 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 86 (7) ◽

pp. 756-764 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

J. V. Jackson ◽

S. L. Talbot ◽

S. Farley

Keyword(s):

Mitochondrial Dna ◽

Genetic Variation ◽

Control Region ◽

Ursus Arctos ◽

Brown Bear ◽

Two Phase ◽

Brown Bears ◽

Kenai Peninsula ◽

South Central ◽

Haplotypic Diversity

We collected data from 20 biparentally inherited microsatellite loci, and nucleotide sequence from the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region, to determine levels of genetic variation of the brown bears ( Ursus arctos L., 1758) of the Kenai Peninsula, south central Alaska. Nuclear genetic variation was similar to that observed in other Alaskan peninsular populations. We detected no significant inbreeding and found no evidence of population substructuring on the Kenai Peninsula. We observed a genetic signature of a bottleneck under the infinite alleles model (IAM), but not under the stepwise mutation model (SMM) or the two-phase model (TPM) of microsatellite mutation. Kenai brown bears have lower levels of mtDNA haplotypic diversity relative to most other brown bear populations in Alaska.

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