Status and management of brown bears in Turkey

Ursus

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 48-53

  Can, Ö Emre ^a   Togan, Inci ^b  

^a WWF Turkey   (Turkey)

^b MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Conservation; Distribution; Management; Status; Turkey; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

EID: 74149085680     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2004)015<0048:SAMOBB>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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