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| Ecology and Behaviour of North American Black Bears: Home Ranges, Habitat and Social Organization (Wildlife Ecology and Behaviour Series, 4) | 
| Authors: R.a. Powell, J.w. Zimmerman, D. Erran Seaman, C. Powell
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
List Price: $279.00
Buy New: $260.76
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2510058
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0412579901
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.78515
EAN: 9780412579905
ASIN: 0412579901
Publication Date: December 31, 1996
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Product Description
What main factors affect mammalian home-range and dynamics? To what extent do constraints on home range characteristics vary between the sexes? This book aims to address these issues by concentrating the authors' expertise and experience in studies of home ranges in general and focusing on their studies of the black bears of the Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, in particular. The authors provide an overview of black bears and methods for their study before discussing concepts of home range, developing predictive habitat quality models, addressing influences of food production on social organization and exploring the mating behaviour of male bears.
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 Technical...yet understandable January 10, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The authors did a wonderful job of compiling years of scientific research into a natural history book. This is definately a book for the more scientifically-oriented community. It is nice to see the technical aspects included, rather than oversimplifying the material into a "storybook." The missing star is for the price...but this is probably a matter related to the publisher rather than the authors.
 An absurdly overpriced pamphlet masquerading as a book. August 29, 1998
17 out of 21 found this review helpful
A person who pays $60 for a paperback volume on natural history might naturally expect to receive a fairly hefty tome. This book, however, is a mere 200 quarto pages cobbled together mainly from a series of technical papers. The language and style are classically dull, dry sciencespeak. Although said by its editors to be designed to appeal to a broad audience, it's strictly for bear bionerds. The clothbound version is even more outrageouly overpriced at $120! This thing is obviously aimed at people who have government grant money to throw around. And disregard the star at the head of this review; the software won't allow less than a one-star rating.
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