Habitat selection during ungulate dispersal and exploratory movement at broad and fine scale with implications for conservation management

Movement Ecology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Killeen, Joshua ^a,b   Thurfjell, Henrik ^a   Ciuti, Simone ^a,c   Paton, Dale ^d   Musiani, Marco ^d   Boyce, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alberta; Cervus elaphus; Dispersal; Elk; Habitat selection; Migration; Step selection functions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010050773     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20513933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40462-014-0015-4     Document Type: Article

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