Unusual hunting and feeding behaviour of polar bears on Spitsbergen

Polar Record

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 216-219

  Stempniewicz, Lech ^a   Kidawa, Dorota ^a   Barcikowski, Mateusz ^a   Iliszko, Lech ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAR; DEER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; PINNIPED; PREY CAPTURE; PREY SELECTION; SEABIRD; HUNTING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ARCTIC; HORNSUND; MAGDALENEFJORDEN; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 84896328017     PISSN: 00322474     EISSN: 14753057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0032247413000053     Document Type: Article

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