Possible negative effects of adult male mortality on female grizzly bear reproduction

Biological Conservation

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-154

  Wielgus, Robert B ^a   Bunnell, Fred L ^b  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brown bears; Canada; Hunting; Infanticide; Reproduction; Sexual segregation; US

Indexed keywords

BEAR; HUNTING; MORTALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

CANADA;

EID: 0034097353     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(99)00152-4     Document Type: Article

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