Tracking animal movement by comparing trace element signatures in claws to spatial variability of elements in soils

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 468-469, Issue , 2014, Pages 699-705

  Ethier, Danielle M ^a   Kyle, Christopher J ^b   Nocera, Joseph J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

American badgers; Animal movement; Element base map; SPCA; Taxidea taxus jacksoni; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ISOTOPES; MAMMALS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOILS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AMERICAN BADGERS; ANIMAL MOVEMENT; ELEMENT BASE-MAP; SPCA; TAXIDEA TAXUS JACKSONI;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

STABLE ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARNIVORE; MOVEMENT; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACKING;

ARTICLE; BADGER; CANADA; CARNIVORE; CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GEOLOGY; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; SPECIES HABITAT; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; TAXIDEA; TAXIDEA TAXUS;

AMERICAN BADGERS; ANIMAL MOVEMENT; ELEMENT BASE-MAP; SPCA; TAXIDEA TAXUS JACKSONI; TRACE ELEMENTS;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; GEOGRAPHY; HOOF AND CLAW; KERATINS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOVEMENT; MUSTELIDAE; ONTARIO; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOIL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ATOMIC; TRACE ELEMENTS;

EID: 84884393531     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.08.091     Document Type: Article

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