Fig. 1
Location of black bear (Ursus americanus) samples collected in the Interior Highlands and Southern Appalachians (2005–2012). Samples from the Interior Highlands were: Arkansas Ouachita Mountains (OU; n = 77), Arkansas Ozark Mountains (OZ; n = 96), Oklahoma (OK; n = 20), and Missouri (MO; n = 110). Samples from the Southern Appalachians: were Big South Fork KY (BSF; n = 19), Pine Mountain KY (PM; n = 84), Tennessee (TN; n = 22), Virginia (VA; n = 8), and West Virginia (WV; n = 29). The range of American black bears (Scheick and McCown 2014) is displayed in the top left. In the main map, historic populations shown as blue circles; recent populations shown as green squares where the Missouri inset map identifies MO–MO and MO–OZ samples in light and dark green, respectively. Note that the arrows show approximate direction from historic to recent populations disregarding that sampling areas are a fraction of total population area. Base layer (ESRI 2009)
