The effects of primiparity on reproductive performance in the brown bear

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 847-854

  Zedrosser, Andreas ^a,b   Dahle, Bjørn ^a   Støen, Ole Gunnar ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Litter size; Litter survival; Primiparity; Sexually selected infanticide; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BREEDING SEASON; FOOD AVAILABILITY; INFANTICIDE; LITTER SIZE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MORTALITY; PARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; FEMALE; LINEAR MODELS; LITTER SIZE; MORTALITY; PARITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; SWEDEN; URSIDAE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 67649173256     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1343-8     Document Type: Article

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