Predicting grizzly bear density in western North America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Mowat, Garth ^a   Heard, Douglas C ^a   Schwarz, Carl J ^b  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BROWN BEAR; CALCULATION; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DENSITY; SALMON; URSIDAE;

EID: 84893198798     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082757     Document Type: Article

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