Using sign at power poles to document presence of bears in Greece

Ursus

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-61

  Karamanlidis, Alexandros A ^a   Youlatos, Dionisios ^a   Sgardelis, Stefanos ^a   Scouras, Zacharias ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Behavior; Brown bears; Conservation; Greece; Marking; Power poles; Presence absence data; Rubbing; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 34347252264     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2007)18[54:USAPPT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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