Population delineation of barren-ground grizzly bears in the central Canadian Arctic

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 728-737

  McLoughlin, Philip D ^a   Cluff, H Dean ^a   Gau, Robert J ^a   Mulders, Robert ^a   Case, Ray L ^a   Messier, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundaries; Cluster analysis; Grizzly bear; Home range; Northwest Territories; Nunavut; Population delineation; Satellite telemetry; Spatial organization; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BIOTELEMETRY; HOME RANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

CANADA;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0036749533     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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