Monitoring of grizzly bear population trends and demography using DNA mark-recapture methods in the Owikeno Lake area of British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Zoology

Volumn 82, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1267-1277

  Boulanger, J ^a   Himmer, S ^b,d   Swan, C ^c  

^a Integrated Ecological Research   (Canada)

^b Arctos Wildlife Services   (Canada)

^c British Columbia Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management   (Canada)

^d Arctos Wildlife Services   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COASTAL ZONES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SAMPLING;

DEMOGRAPHY; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURVIVAL RATES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

BEAR; DEMOGRAPHY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONITORING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 12744260239     PISSN: 00084301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/Z04-100     Document Type: Article

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