Does Learning or Instinct Shape Habitat Selection?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nielsen, Scott E ^a   Shafer, Aaron B A ^a   Boyce, Mark S ^a   Stenhouse, Gordon B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alberta Sustainable Resource Development   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BEAR; CANADA; DRIVE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GRIZZLY BEAR; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HEREDITY; HOME RANGE; LEARNING; MALE; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; SPRING; TREND STUDY; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; INSTINCT; LEARNING; MALE; PHYLOGENY; SEASONS; URSIDAE;

ANIMALIA; URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84872479316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053721     Document Type: Article

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