Woodland caribou relative to landscape patterns in northeastern Alberta

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 622-633

  Stuart Smith, A Kari ^a,d   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a,e   Boutin, Stan ^b   Hebert, Daryll M ^a   Rippin, A Blair ^c  

^a Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Inc   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c Alberta Environmental Protection   (Canada)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alberta; Calf survival; Density; Home range; Landscape ecology; Population dynamics; Predation; Rangifer tarandus caribou; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

RANGIFER; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 0030769666     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802170     Document Type: Article

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