Do brown bear litter sizes reported by the public reflect litter sizes obtained by scientific methods?

Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1352-1356

  Zedrosser, Andreas ^a,b   Swenson, Jon K ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Institute for Nature Management   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Litter size; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; LITTER SIZE; NATURE CONSERVATION; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 33646117487     PISSN: 00917648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0091-7648(2005)33[1352:DBBLSR]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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