Influence of phenology on site selection by female American black bears in coastal British Columbia

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Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 41-51

  Davis, Helen ^a   Weir, Richard D ^a   Hamilton, Anthony N ^b   Deal, John A ^c  

^a Artemis Wildlife Consultants   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

^c Canadian Forest Products Ltd   (Canada)

Author keywords

1 1 Matched logistic regression; Akaike's information criterion; American black bear; British Columbia; Disturbance; Forage; Forest management; Habitat; Phenology; Site selection; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

ONCORHYNCHUS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 33646571577     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2006)17[41:IOPOSS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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