Seasonal food habits of the European brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the Pindos Mountains, Western Greece

Folia Zoologica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-25

  Vlachos, Christos G ^a   Bakaloudis, Dimitris E ^b   Dimitriou, Miltiadis ^a   Kritikou, Katherine ^a   Chouvardas, Dimitris ^a  

^a School of Geotechnical Sciences   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Endangered species; Omnivory; Seasonal diet

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DIET; SEASONAL VARIATION;

GREECE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0034007663     PISSN: 01397893     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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