Reproductive characteristics of brown bears on the Oshima Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1026-1034

  Mano, Tsutomu ^a   Tsubota, Toshio ^b  

^a Hokkaido Institute of Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Birth interval; Brown bears; Harvest analysis; Hokkaido; Litter size; Neonatal mortality; Population dynamics; Reproduction; Sexual maturity; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

JAPAN;

URSUS ARCTOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036860599     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/1545-1542(2002)083<1026:RCOBBO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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