Movement responses of caribou to human-induced habitat edges lead to their aggregation near anthropogenic features

American Naturalist

Volumn 181, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 827-836

  Fortin, Daniel ^a   Buono, Pietro Luciano ^b   Fortin, André ^a   Courbin, Nicolas ^a   Tye Gingras, Christian ^a   Moorcroft, Paul R ^c   Courtois, Réhaume ^d   Dussault, Claude ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Canada)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Advection diffusion model; Animal movement; Edge effects; Human disturbance; Woodland caribou

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; DEER; DISTURBANCE; FOOD WEB; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT LOSS; HERBIVORE; NATURE CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SURVEYING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANADA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINDEER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUEBEC; REINDEER; TREES;

EID: 84877775673     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/670243     Document Type: Article

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