The dietary habits of the Brown bear (Ursus arctos) in western Greece

Mammalian Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-35

  Paralikidis, Nikolaos P ^a   Papageorgiou, Nikolaos K ^a   Kontsiotis, Vasilios J ^a   Tsiompanoudis, Apostolos C ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Food; Greece; Scat analysis

Indexed keywords

BEAR; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; ISOLATED POPULATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; MACEDONIA [GREECE]; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

INVERTEBRATA; MORUS (PLANT); PRUNUS; PYRUS; QUERCUS; RUBUS; URSUS ARCTOS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 72049128048     PISSN: 16165047     EISSN: 16181476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mambio.2009.03.010     Document Type: Article

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