Should I stay or should I go? Natal dispersal in the brown bear

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 369-376

  Zedrosser, Andreas ^a,b   Støen, Ole Gunnar ^b   Sæbø, Solve ^b   Swenson, Jon E ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Institute for Nature Management   (Norway)

Author keywords

brown bear; inbreeding avoidance; natal dispersal; resident fitness; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DOMINANCE; FITNESS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; JUVENILE; NATAL DISPERSAL; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX RATIO; SIBLING; WEANING;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 34548640575     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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