Low site fidelity and home range drift in a wide-ranging, large Arctic omnivore

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 23-28

  Edwards, Mark A ^a   Nagy, John A ^a,b   Derocher, Andrew E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; fidelity; grizzly bear; home range drift; MRPP; Schoener's ratio; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BEAR; FITNESS; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; OMNIVORY; PHILOPATRY; POPULATION DENSITY; RANGE SIZE; SITE FIDELITY; SPACE USE;

CANADA; MACKENZIE DELTA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 57449115540     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.025     Document Type: Article

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