Changes in the structure of an increasing brown bear population with distance from core areas: Another example of presaturation female dispersal?

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 59-64

  Kojola, Ilpo ^a   Laitala, Hanna Mari ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DISPERSAL; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

FINLAND;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0034045841     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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