Environmental stress and developmental stability in dentition of the yellowstone grizzly bears

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 339-344

  Badyaev, Alexander V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dentition; Developmental stability; Environmental stress; Grizzly bears; Sexual selection; Ursus arctos horribilis

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DENTITION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; SEXUAL SELECTION;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

URSUS ARCTOS; URSUS ARCTOS HORRIBILIS;

EID: 0031818654     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/9.4.339     Document Type: Article

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