Landscape permeability for grizzly bear movements in Washington and Southwestern British Columbia

Ursus

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 90-103

  Singleton, Peter H ^a   Gaines, William L ^b   Lehmkuhl, John F ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Grizzly bear; Habitat modeling; Highways; Landscape connectivity; Meta population; North cascades ecosystem; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645794671     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2004)015<0090:LPFGBM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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