Identification of functional corridors with movement characteristics of brown bears on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 765-772

  Graves, Tabitha A ^a   Farley, Sean ^b   Goldstein, Michael I ^c   Servheen, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Fragmentation; Habitat; Highways; Linkage zones; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GPS; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; LAND MANAGEMENT; MOVEMENT; PATCH DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; KENAI PENINSULA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 34247553321     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9082-x     Document Type: Article

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