Which future for the French Pyrenean brown bear (Ursus arctos) population? An approach using stage-structured deterministic and stochastic models

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 326, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Chapron, Guillaume ^a   Quenette, Pierre Yves ^b   Legendre, Stéphane ^a   Clobert, Jean ^c  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b OFFICE NATIONAL DE LA CHASSE ET DE LA FAUNE SAUVAGE   (France)

^c UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Pyrenees; Reinforcement; Ursus arctos; Viability analysis

Indexed keywords

BEAR; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION MODELING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ARTICLE; BEAR; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; REINFORCEMENT; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL; WESTERN EUROPE; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

EUROPE; PYRENEES;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0141717764     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1631-0691(03)00055-6     Document Type: Article

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