Agricultural lands as ecological traps for grizzly bears

Animal Conservation

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 369-377

  Northrup, J M ^a   Stenhouse, G B ^b   Boyce, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bear; Carnivore; Conflict risk; Ecological trap; GPS radiotelemetry; Grizzly bear; Human conflict; Resource selection function; Ursus arctos

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEAR; CARNIVORE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; GIS; HABITAT SELECTION; LOGISTICS; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIOTELEMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84864009746     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00525.x     Document Type: Article

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