Mitochondrial DNA Phylogeography of the North American Brown Bear and Implications for Conservation

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Authors: Waits, Lisette P., Talbot, Sandra L., Ward, R. H., Shields, G. F.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1998
• Subjects: Kodiak; Northwest Territories; Ursus arctos; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96351.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1523-1739.1998.96351.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1523-1739.1998.96351.x/fullpdf

The historical distribution of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in North America included Alaska, western Canada, the western and midwestern states, plus northern Mexico. Currently, the brown bear is limited to Alaska, the Canadian provinces of the Yukon, Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Al...