A note on opportunism and parsimony in data collection

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1021-1024

  Bischof, Richard ^a   Zedrosser, Andreas ^a,b   Brunberg, Sven ^c   Swenson, Jon E ^a,d  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

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

^c Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project   (Sweden)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Brown bear; Data collection; Morphometrics; Principal components analysis; Sweden; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; BEAR; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; MORPHOMETRY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 77749258740     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2008-509     Document Type: Article

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