Range fidelity: The missing link between caribou decline and habitat alteration?

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2840-2850

  Faille, Geneviève ^a   Dussault, C ^b   Ouellet, Jean Pierre ^a   Fortin, Daniel ^c   Courtois, Réhaume ^b   St Laurent, Martin Hugues ^a   Dussault, Claude ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MINISTÈRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES ET DE LA FAUNE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Conservation; Ecological trap; Forest harvesting; GPS telemetry; Population decline; Range fidelity; Rangifer tarandus caribou; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DEER; GPS; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HOME RANGE; LOGGING (TIMBER); POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION RISK; TELEMETRY;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 77956875264     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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