Identifying and prioritizing ungulate migration routes for landscape-level conservation

Ecological Applications

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2016-2025

  Sawyer, Hall ^a,b   Kauffman, Matthew J ^b   Nielson, Ryan M ^a   Horne, Jon S ^c  

^a West Incorporated   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge movement model (bbmm); Global positioning system (gps); Migration; Movement corridors; Mule deer; Natural gas development cf. Migration routes; Odocoileus hemionus; Stopover site; Utilization distribution (ud); Wyoming, usa

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEER; GPS; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATION ROUTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIORITIZATION; RANGE SIZE; STOPOVER;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION; ARTICLE; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DEER; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; TIME FACTORS; WYOMING;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS HEMIONUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 71549148085     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/08-2034.1     Document Type: Article

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