Brown bear conservation and the ghost of persecution past

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2163-2170

  Zedrosser, Andreas ^a,b   Steyaert, Sam M J G ^a,b   Gossow, Hartmut ^a   Swenson, Jon E ^b,c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

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

^c Norwegian Nature Inspectorate   (Norway)

Author keywords

Brown bear; Conservation; Human selection; Persecution; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

BEAR; BODY MASS; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; EXPLOITATION; HABITAT CREATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HISTORICAL RECORD; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; LITTER SIZE; MORPHOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN EUROPE;

MAMMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 79960923637     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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