Annual and seasonal movement patterns of barren-ground grizzly bears in the central northwest territories

Ursus

Volumn 11, Issue , 1999, Pages 79-86

  Mcloughlin, Philip D ^a   Case, Ray L ^b   Gau, Robert J ^b   Ferguson, Steven H ^a,c   Messier, Francois ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Annual home range; Fixed kernel; Grizzly bear; Minimum convex polygon; Movement rates; Northwest territories; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002428855     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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