Modeling the brown bear population in Slovenia: A tool in the conservation management of a threatened species

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 170, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 453-469

  Jerina, Klemen ^a   Debeljak, Marko ^b   Džeroski, Sašo ^c   Kobler, Andrej ^d   Adamič, Miha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^c JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^d SLOVENIAN FORESTRY INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Habitat model; Management; Population size model; Spatial expansion

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HABITAT SELECTION; POPULATION MODELING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 0347567367     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(03)00245-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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