Home ranges of wolves in Białowieza Primeval Forest, Poland, compared with other Eurasian populations

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 842-852

  Okarma, Henryk ^a,c   Jȩdrzejewski, Włodzimierz ^a   Schmidt, Krzysztof ^a   Śniezko, Stanisław ^a   Bunevich, Aleksei N ^b   Jȩdrzejewska, Bogumiła ^a  

^a MAMMAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b State Natl Pk Belovezhskaya P   (Belarus)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Density; Europe; Geographic pattern; Home range size; Home range use; Poland; Wolf

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000029808     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1383092     Document Type: Article

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