Multiscale habitat use by wolverines in British Columbia, Canada

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2180-2192

  Krebs, John ^a   Lofroth, Eric C ^b   Parfitt, Ian ^c  

^a Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program ^*  (Canada)

^b Ministry of Environment British Columbia   (Canada)

^c Selkirk College Geospatial Research Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Geographic Information System; Gulo gulo; Habitat association; Human use; Predation risk; Prey relationships; Resource selection function; Wolverines

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEER; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; GIS; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; MODELING; MUSTELID; PREDATION RISK; RADIOTELEMETRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RODENT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ALCES ALCES; GULO GULO; MARMOTA CALIGATA; SCIURIDAE; SPERMOPHILUS; SPERMOPHILUS COLUMBIANUS;

EID: 35649010611     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-099     Document Type: Article

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