Spatio-temporal and demographic variation in the harvest of black bears: Implications for population estimation

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• population estimation 100%
• harvest 59%
• temporal variation 55%
• breeding 13%
• population size 12%
• rate 12%
• reproductive status 10%
• Akaike information criterion 8%
• bear 7%
• age class 7%
• snow cover 6%
• hunting 6%
• mortality 4%
• decision 4%
• effect 1%

Agriculture & Biology

• temporal variation 69%
• demographic statistics 59%
• population size 24%
• Ursus americanus 18%
• snowpack 17%
• Ursidae 17%
• hunters 15%
• breeding 15%
• biologists 14%
• demography 14%
• age structure 13%
• gender 8%