Brown bear population trends from demographic and monitoring-based estimators

Ursus

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 137-144

  Brodie, Jedediah F ^a   Gibeau, Michael L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banff National Park; Carnivores; Demography; Estimators; Fcub; Females with cubs; Indices; Kananaskis country; Monitoring; Population growth rate; Ursidae; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

URSIDAE; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 37749029831     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2007)18[137:BBPTFD]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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