Black bear monitoring in eastern interior Alaska

Ursus

Volumn 13, Issue , 2001, Pages 69-77

  Bertram, Mark R ^a   Vivion, Michael T ^a  

^a Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge   (United States)

Author keywords

American black bear; Denning ecology; Interior Alaska; Northern boreal forest; Reproduction; Survival rates; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645961566     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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