Factors influencing home-range size in subadult brown bears

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 859-865

  Dahle, Bjørn ^a   Støen, Ole Gunnar ^b   Swenson, Jon E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Body size; Brown bear; Home range; Population density; Sex; Subadults; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BEAR; BODY SIZE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HOME RANGE; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 33750385828     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/05-MAMM-A-352R1.1     Document Type: Article

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