Population ecology of polar bears at Svalbard, Norway

Population Ecology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-275

  Derocher, Andrew E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BEAR; BODY MASS; LITTER SIZE; POPULATION ECOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANIMALIA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 28444488923     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-005-0231-2     Document Type: Article

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