Demography of the Yellowstone grizzly bears

Ecology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 957-975

  Pease, Craig M ^a,c   Mattson, David J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c VERMONT LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike information criterion; Behavior; Conditioning to humans; Conservation; Demography; Generalized Leslie matrix; Grizzly bear; Maximum likelihood; Radiotelemetry; Source sink; Ursus arctos; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; POPULATION SIZE;

UNITED STATES; WYOMING; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

CRONARTIUM FLACCIDUM; CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA; MAMMALIA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0032895662     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[0957:DOTYGB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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