Evaluating functional recovery of habitat for threatened woodland caribou

Ecosphere

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2017, Pages

  Dickie, Melanie ^a   Serrouya, Robert ^a   Demars, Craig ^a   Cranston, Jerome ^a   Boutin, Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canis lupus; Habitat management; Linear features; Movement; Rangifer tarandus; Recovery; Restoration; Selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 85030226084     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1936     Document Type: Article

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