Holocene brown bear (Ursus arctos L.) from Norwegian caves

Boreas

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 296-316

  Østbye, Eivind ^a   Lauritzen, Stein Erik ^a   Østbye, Kjartan ^a   Wiig, Øystein ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CAVE; COLONIZATION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; HISTORICAL ECOLOGY; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; OSTEOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POSTGLACIAL; STRATIGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 33746783316     PISSN: 03009483     EISSN: 15023885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3885.2006.tb01159.x     Document Type: Article

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