Brown bear activity in traditional wood-pastures in Southern Transylvania, Romania

Ursus

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-52

  Roellig, Marlene ^a   Dorresteijn, Ine ^a   Von Wehrden, Henrik ^a,b,c   Hartel, Tibor ^a,d   Fischer, Joern ^a  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^d SAPIENTIA HUNGARIAN UNIVERSITY OF TRANSYLVANIA   (Romania)

Author keywords

agroforestry; cultural landscapes; Eastern Europe; European brown bear; silvopastoralism; Ursus arctos; wood pastures

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908297786     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/URSUS-D-13-00007.1     Document Type: Article

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