Garth Mowat
Garth Mowat is the Large Carnivore Specialist for the Province of British Columbia and an Adjunct Professor at UBC in Kelowna. His job involves research on wildlife ecology, particularly population dynamics, of mammals, mostly terrestrial carnivores. Current research includes diet and population dynamics for grizzly bears, wolves and cougars.
Affiliations: BC Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship; Department of Earth, Environmental and Geographic Sciences, University of British Columbia
Species Studied: Grizzly Bear; Black Bear; Cougar; Wolverine; Black Bear
Projects
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Body Condition Monitoring of Grizzly Bears Using Remote Cameras
We are collecting photos of grizzly bears so we can estimate body condition using a computer-based measurement method of bear size described by Shirane et al (2020; https://peerj.com/articles/9982/). The placement of cameras is critical...