Use of stone pine seeds and oak acorns by Asiatic black bears in Central Japan

Ursus

Volumn 12, Issue , 2000, Pages 47-50

  Huygens, Oscar C ^a   Hayashi, Hidetake ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acorn; Asiatic black bear; Japan; Japanese stone pine; Korean stone pine; Oak; Pinuis pumila; Pinus koraiensis; Quercus crispula; Ursus thibetanus

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645969544     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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