Major roadwork impacts the space use behaviour of gray wolf

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 18-25

  Lesmerises, Frédéric ^a   Dussault, Christian ^b   St Laurent, Martin Hugues ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Gray wolf; Human activity; Road construction; Road crossing; Space use

Indexed keywords

ROAD CONSTRUCTION;

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; GRAY WOLVES; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; LOCAL DISTURBANCES; RESOURCE SELECTION FUNCTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION SITE; ROAD CROSSING; SPACE USE;

ROADS AND STREETS;

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOTELEMETRY; CANID; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GPS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NOMADIC PEOPLE; RESOURCE SELECTION; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPACE USE;

CANADA;

EID: 84875243103     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2012.12.011     Document Type: Article

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