'You shall not pass!': Quantifying barrier permeability and proximity avoidance by animals

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-53

  Beyer, Hawthorne L ^a   Gurarie, Eliezer ^b,c   Börger, Luca ^d   Panzacchi, Manuela ^e   Basille, Mathieu ^f   Herfindal, Ivar ^g   Van Moorter, Bram ^e   R Lele, Subhash ^h   Matthiopoulos, Jason ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR NATURE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Rangifer tarandus; Animal movement; Connectivity; Fences; Movement ecology; Reindeer; Resistance; Resource selection; Roads; Step selection

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AVOIDANCE REACTION; CONNECTIVITY; DEER; HABITAT SELECTION; MOVEMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE SELECTION; ROADSIDE ENVIRONMENT; SPACE USE;

ANIMALIA; RANGIFER TARANDUS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; REINDEER; REMOTE SENSING; SEASON; VETERINARY;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; NORWAY; REINDEER; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SEASONS;

EID: 84969373511     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2656.12275     Document Type: Article

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