Movement responses by wolves to industrial linear features and their effect on woodland caribou in northeastern alberta

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2854-2865

  Latham, A David M ^a,b   Latham, M Cecilia ^a   Boyce, Mark S ^a   Boutin, Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Alberta; Canada; Canis lupus; Functional habitat loss; Movement analysis; Predation; Rangifer tarandus caribou; Seismic lines; Spatial separation strategy; Step selection functions; Wolf; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

CANID; DEER; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENERGY MARKET; FORESTRY; HABITAT LOSS; HOME RANGE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MORTALITY; MOVEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATION; RIVER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STREAM; WOODLAND;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS LUPUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU;

EID: 84555205689     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0666.1     Document Type: Article

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