Transcending scale dependence in identifying habitat with resource selection functions

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1068-1083

  DeCesare, Nicholas J ^a   Hebblewhite, Mark ^a   Schmiegelow, Fiona ^b   Hervieux, David ^c   McDermid, Gregory J ^d   Neufeld, Lalenia ^e   Bradley, Mark ^e   Whittington, Jesse ^e   Smith, Kirby G ^c   Morgantini, Luigi E ^f   Wheatley, Matthew ^c   Musiani, Marco ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

^f Weyerhaeuser   (Canada)

Author keywords

Critical habitat; Scale integrated resource selection function, SRSF; Species distribution model; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HABITAT CONSERVATION; RESOURCE SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNGULATE; WOODLAND;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; PHYSIOLOGY; REINDEER;

ALBERTA; ANIMALS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; REINDEER;

RANGIFER TARANDUS; RANGIFER TARANDUS CARIBOU; UNGULATA;

EID: 84862993398     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1610.1     Document Type: Article

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