Consequences of severe habitat fragmentation on density, genetics, and spatial capture-recapture analysis of a small bear population
Table 5
Habitat fragmentation metrics estimated for natural habitats supporting the Highlands-Glades and Ocala-St. Johns subpopulations of Florida black bears.
We estimated percent land area that was natural habitat (% HLA), patch density (PD; patches/km2), mean patch size (MPS; km2), and contagion (Contag; %) for lands occupied by the HGS, and compared to values produced by Hostetler et al. [89] for lands occupied by the comparatively larger Ocala-St. Johns subpopulation.