Determinants of home range size for polar bears (Ursus maritimus)

Ecology Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 311-318

  Ferguson, Steven H ^a   Taylor, Mitchell K ^b   Born, Erik W ^c   Rosing Asvid, Aqqalu ^c   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b Government of Nunavut   (Canada)

^c GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

Author keywords

Allometry; Arctic; Body size; Home range; Polar bears; Predictability; Sea ice; Seasonality; Ursus maritimus; Variation

Indexed keywords

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 0032849687     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1461-0248.1999.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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