Allocating harvests among polar bear stocks in the Beaufort Sea

Arctic

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 247-259

  Amstrup, S C ^a   Burner, G M ^a   Stirling, I ^b   McDonald, T L ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arctic; Beaufort Sea; Boundaries; Clustering; Harvest allocation; Kernel; Management; Polar bears; Population delineation; Radiotelemetry; Smoothing; Ursus maritimus

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BOOTSTRAPPING; HARVESTING; HOME RANGE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; QUOTA SYSTEM; RADIOTELEMETRY; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ALASKA; ARCTIC OCEAN; BEAUFORT SEA; CANADA; CHUKCHI SEA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES; OCEANIC REGIONS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 27144543665     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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