Brown bear body mass and growth in northern and southern Europe

Oecologia

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-47

  Swenson, Jon E ^a,b   Adamič, Miha ^c   Huber, Djuro ^d   Stokke, Sigbjørn ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Body growth; Europe; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BERGMANN RULE; BODY MASS; FASTING; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; HIBERNATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREY AVAILABILITY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PROTEIN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SALMONID; SEASONALITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; URSIDAE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ONCORHYNCHUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 34447641059     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-007-0715-1     Document Type: Article

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