Components of grizzly bear habitat selection: Density, habitats, roads, and mortality risk

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1446-1457

  Ciarniello, Lana M ^a,d   Boyce, Mark S ^a   Heard, Douglas C ^b   Seip, Dale R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

^c RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^d NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Density estimation; Forestry; Grizzly bear; Habitat selection; Mortality; Resource selection function; Risk; Roads; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FOOD LIMITATION; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE SELECTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

PASTINACA SATIVA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 41049102398     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2006-229     Document Type: Article

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