Are Cantabrian brown bears recovering?

Ursus

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 121-124

  Fernández Gil, Alberto ^a,b   Ordiz, Andrés ^a,c   Naves, Javier ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brown bears; Cantabrian Mountains; Females with cubs of the year; Monitoring; Population index; Trends; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

URSUS; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 77952124924     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/08SC028.1     Document Type: Article

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