Identifying impediments to long-distance mammal migrations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 99-109

  Seidler, Renee G ^a   Long, Ryan A ^b   Berger, Joel ^c   Bergen, Scott ^d   Beckmann, Jon P ^e  

^a North America Program   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^e WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian bridge movement model; Greater Yellowstone; Highway; Long distance migration; Natural gas; Pronghorn; Resource utilization function; Stopover

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GAS FIELD; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MIGRATORY POPULATION; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DENSITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE USE; ROAD; SPECIES CONSERVATION; UNGULATE;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA; ANTILOCAPRIDAE; MAMMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; WYOMING;

EID: 84921323099     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12376     Document Type: Article

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