Genetic monitoring of Scandinavian brown bear effective population size and immigration

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 960-965

  Tallmon, David A ^a,d   Bellemain, Eva ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^b,c   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JOSEPH FOURIER   (France)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Brown bears; Demography; Effective population size; Genetic monitoring; Immigration; Non invasive sampling; Population size; Scandinavia; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION GENETICS; GENETIC MARKER; IMMIGRATION; MONITORING; POPULATION SIZE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; WORLD;

MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 12144267301     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2004)068[0960:GMOSBB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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