Distance-dependent effect of the nearest neighbor: Spatiotemporal patterns in brown bear reproduction

Ecology

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 3327-3335

  Ordiz, Andrés ^a,b   Støen, Ole Gunnar ^a,c   Swenson, Jon E ^a,d   Kojola, Ilpo ^e   Bischof, Richard ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^e FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Brown bears; Females; Population regulation; Reproductive competition; Reproductive suppression; Reproductive synchrony; Scandinavia; Sexually selected infanticide; Sociality; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; HOME RANGE; INFANTICIDE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL SELECTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYNCHRONY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEAR; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRTH INTERVALS; FEMALE; MALE; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; URSIDAE;

EID: 60249096624     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1921.1     Document Type: Article

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