Estimating the Total Weight of Scandinavian Brown Bears Ursus arctos from field-dressed and Slaughter Weights

Estimating the Total Weight of Scandinavian Brown Bears Ursus arctos from field-dressed and Slaughter Weights

Regressions are presented to predict the total weight (TW) in kg of Scandinavian brown bears Ursus arctos from field-dressed weights (FW), where TW = 4.01 + 1.16 × FW, and slaughter weights (SW), where TW = 4.63 + 1.49 × SW. Both regressions had high predictive values (r2 = 0.97) and were not signif...

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Veröffentlicht in:Wildlife Biology 1995-09, Vol.1 (3), p.177-179
Hauptverfasser: Swenson, Jon E, Sandegren, Finn, Söderberg, Arne, Franzén, Robert
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Regressions are presented to predict the total weight (TW) in kg of Scandinavian brown bears Ursus arctos from field-dressed weights (FW), where TW = 4.01 + 1.16 × FW, and slaughter weights (SW), where TW = 4.63 + 1.49 × SW. Both regressions had high predictive values (r2 = 0.97) and were not significantly affected by sex or genetic lineage of the bears. Formulas to calculate confidence intervals are also presented.
ISSN:0909-6396
1903-220X
1903-220X
DOI:10.2981/wlb.1995.023