Bear reintroduce: Lessons and challenges

Ursus

Volumn 13, Issue , 2001, Pages 335-345

  Clark, Joseph D ^a   Huber, Djuro ^b   Servheen, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bear; Reestablishment; Reintroduction; Restoration; Translocation; Ursus americamis; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645994162     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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