Editing Brown bear (section)

===Home ranges===
Brown bears usually inhabit vast home ranges; however, they are not highly territorial. Several adult bears roam freely over the same vicinity without contention, unless rights to a fertile female or food sources are being contested.<ref name="pasitschniak-arts1993mamsp"></ref><ref name= Dahle/> Despite their lack of traditional territorial behavior, adult males seem to have a "personal zone" within which other bears are not tolerated if they are seen.<ref name="Pearson">Pearson, A. M. (1975). ''The northern interior grizzly bear Ursus arctos L. '' Information Canada. p. 86</ref> Males always wander further than females, due to such behavior giving increasing access to both females and food sources. Females have the advantage of inhabiting smaller territories, which decreases the likelihood of encounters with male bears who may endanger their cubs.<ref name="pasitschniak-arts1993mamsp"></ref><ref name= Bellemain>{{cite journal|doi=10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01152.x|title=Mating Strategies in Relation to Sexually Selected Infanticide in a Non-Social Carnivore: The Brown Bear|url=http://bearproject.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2006-A060-Bellemain-Mating-Strategies-in-relation-to-SSI.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://bearproject.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/2006-A060-Bellemain-Mating-Strategies-in-relation-to-SSI.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live|journal=Ethology|volume=112|issue=#3|pages=238–246|year=2006|last1=Bellemain|first1=Eva|last2=Swenson|first2=Jon E.|last3=Taberlet|first3=Pierre|bibcode=2006Ethol.112..238B }}</ref>

In areas where food is abundant, such as coastal Alaska, home ranges for females and males are up to {{convert|24|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} and {{convert|89|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, respectively. Similarly, in [[British Columbia]], bears of the two sexes travel in relatively compact home ranges of {{convert|115|and|318|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}. In [[Yellowstone National Park]], home ranges for females are up to {{convert|281|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} and up to {{convert|874|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} for males. In [[Romania]], the largest home range was recorded for adult males ({{convert|3,143|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|disp=semicolon}}).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pop|first1=Ioan Mihai|last2=Bereczky|first2=Leonardo|last3=Chiriac|first3=Silviu|last4=Iosif|first4=Ruben|last5=Nita|first5=Andreea|last6=Popescu|first6=Viorel Dan|last7=Rozylowicz|first7=Laurențiu|title=Movement ecology of brown bears (Ursus arctos) in the Romanian Eastern Carpathians|journal=Nature Conservation|volume=26|pages=15–31|doi=10.3897/natureconservation.26.22955|issn=1314-3301|year=2018|doi-access=free}}</ref> In the central Arctic of Canada, where food sources are quite scarce, home ranges range up to {{convert|2434|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} for females and {{convert|8171|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} for males.<ref name= Novak>Novak, M., Baker, J. A., Obbard, M. E.; Malloch, B. (1987). ''Wild furbearer management and conservation in North America''. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.</ref><ref name= Dahle/>