Andean bear habitat use in the Oyacachi River Basin, Ecuador

Ursus

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 198-209

  Cuesta, Francisco ^a   Peralvo, Manuel F ^a   Van Manen, Frank T ^b  

^a EcoCiencia   (Ecuador)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Andean bear; Conservation planning; Ecuador; Habitat suitability; Habitat use; Mahalanobis distance; Tremarctos ornatiis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645324942     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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