Fifty years of brown bear population expansion: Effects of sex-biased dispersal on rate of expansion and population structure

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1491-1501

  Jerina, Klemen ^a   Adamič, Miha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Dispersal; Population density; Population growth; Sex biased dispersal; Slovenia; Spatial expansion; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DISPERSAL; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; LONG RANGE TRANSPORT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RANGE EXPANSION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 58149252040     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/07-MAMM-A-357.1     Document Type: Article

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