Fig 1.
Locations of black bear incident reports in Michigan.
Locations at the section level of publically reported black bear incidents (black dots) received by Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Michigan, USA, 2003–2011. Gray areas were excluded from analyses as they contained no black bear incident reports and are outside the black bear range.
Table 1.
A priori model set.
Fig 2.
Densities of black bear incident reports in Michigan.
Density of black bear incident reports received by Michigan Department of Natural Resources during 2003–2011 for the Upper Peninsula (solid line) and Lower Peninsula (dashed line) regions of the study area with (A) the average annual black bear incident report density and (B) average monthly black bear incident report density.
Table 2.
Summary of model selection results.
Table 3.
Best model parameter coefficients.
Table 4.
Summary of independent variables.
Fig 3.
Relative distribution of the probability of black bear incident report occurrence in Michigan, USA.
Based on black bear incident reports collected by Michigan Department of Natural Resources during 2003–2011. Solid gray areas were excluded from analysis as they contained no black bear incident reports and are outside the black bear population range.