Grizzly bear population vital rates and trend in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, Montana

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 119-128

  Mace, Richard D ^a   Carney, Daniel W ^b   Chilton Radandt, Tonya ^a   Courville, Stacy A ^c   Haroldson, Mark A ^d   Harris, Richard B ^e   Jonkel, James ^a   McLellan, Bruce ^f   Madel, Michael ^g   Manley, Timothy L ^a   Schwartz, Charles C ^d   Servheen, Christopher ^e   Stenhouse, Gordon ^h   Waller, John S ⁱ   Wenum, Erik ^a  

^a WILDLIFE AND PARKS   (United States)

^b Box 850   (United States)

^c Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe 408 ^*  (United States)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^f British Columbia Ministry of Forests Research Branch   (Canada)

^g Box 225   (United States)

^h Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

ⁱ NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

grizzly bear; lambda; Montana; mortality; population trend; reproduction; survival; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; LITTER SIZE; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; RADIOTELEMETRY; SURVIVAL;

MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055208099     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.250     Document Type: Article

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