Testing a Mahalanobis Distance Model of Black Bear Habitat Use in the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma

ERIC C. HELLGREN; SARA L. BALES; MARK S. GREGORY; DAVID M. LESLIE; JOSEPH D. CLARK

doi:10.2193/2006-031

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1 May 2007 Testing a Mahalanobis Distance Model of Black Bear Habitat Use in the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma

ERIC C. HELLGREN, SARA L. BALES, MARK S. GREGORY, DAVID M. LESLIE, JOSEPH D. CLARK

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ERIC C. HELLGREN,^1,*,** SARA L. BALES,² MARK S. GREGORY,³ DAVID M. LESLIE,⁴ JOSEPH D. CLARK⁵

¹aOklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State Univ
²bOklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Department of Zoology, Oklahoma State Univ
³cDepartment of Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078, USA
⁴dOklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, United States Geological Survey, Oklahoma Sta
⁵eUnited States Geological Survey, Southern Appalachian Research Branch, 274 Ellington Plant Sciences

^* E-mail: hellgren@siu.edu
^** Present address: Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Southern Illinois University, Mailcode 6504, Carbondale, IL 62901-6504, USA

J. of Wildlife Management, 71(3):924-928 (2007). https://doi.org/10.2193/2006-031

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Abstract

Regional wildlife–habitat models are commonly developed but rarely tested with truly independent data. We tested a published habitat model for black bears (Ursus americanus) with new data collected in a different site in the same ecological region (i.e., Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas and Oklahoma, USA). We used a Mahalanobis distance model developed from relocations of black bears in Arkansas to produce a map layer of Mahalanobis distances on a study area in neighboring Oklahoma. We tested this modeled map layer with relocations of black bears on the Oklahoma area. The distributions of relocations of female black bears were consistent with model predictions. We conclude that this modeling approach can be used to predict regional suitability for a species of interest.

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ERIC C. HELLGREN, SARA L. BALES, MARK S. GREGORY, DAVID M. LESLIE, and JOSEPH D. CLARK "Testing a Mahalanobis Distance Model of Black Bear Habitat Use in the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma," Journal of Wildlife Management 71(3), 924-928, (1 May 2007). https://doi.org/10.2193/2006-031

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