Denning ecology of brown bears and Asiatic black bears in the Russian Far East

Ursus

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 153-161

  Seryodkin, Ivan V ^a   Kostyria, Alexei V ^b   Goodrich, John M ^c   Miquelle, Dale G ^c   Smirnov, Evgeny N ^d   Kerley, Linda L ^c   Quigley, Howard B ^c   Hornocker, Maurice G ^c  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^c WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

^d Sikhote Alin State Biosphere Zapovednik   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Asiatic black bear; Brown bear; Denning; Russian far east; Sikhote alin zapovednik; Ursus arctos; Ursus thibetamis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645995088     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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