Download or read book Multi scale Habitat Selection by Mountain Caribou in West Central Alberta written by Tara Dawn Szkorupa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multi scale Habitat Selection by Mountain Caribou in West Central Alberta written by Tara Dawn Szkorupa and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodland Caribou Habitat Selection During Winter and Along Migratory Routes in Westcentral Alberta written by Dorothy Joanne Saher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multi scale Habitat Selection by Boreal Woodland Caribou in the Saht Gwich in and Inuvialuit Regions of the Northwest Territories written by Stantec Consulting Ltd and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To expand upon previous Department of Environment and Natural Resource (ENR) studies of habitat selection by boreal woodland caribou in the northern part of their Northwest Territories (NWT) range (Nagy et al. 2005, 2006), resource selection function (RSF) analysis was carried out with data from 58 boreal caribou that were fitted with satellite and GPS collars between 2002 and 2011 in the Sahtú, Gwichʼin and Inuvialuit Settlement Regions (ISR). Habitat selection by boreal caribou was evaluated at two spatial scales: the selection of home ranges within the study area (broad scale) and the selection for different areas within each caribou's home range (finer scale). Each scale of habitat selection was evaluated separately for the winter, calving, summer, and fall breeding seasons. To evaluate selection of home ranges within the study area, habitat features at random locations drawn within individual seasonal home ranges were contrasted to habitat features at random locations distributed throughout the study area. Habitat selection within home ranges was evaluated by comparing habitat features at each observed collar location to habitat features at random locations drawn from within individual seasonal home ranges. This approach allowed the two scales of habitat selection to be combined into RSF maps that captured both scales of habitat selection. Habitat features considered in the analysis included land cover type, vegetation productivity, slope, elevation, distance to lakes and rivers, density and distance to seismic lines, presence of roads, and presence of forest fires

Download or read book Research Techniques in Animal Ecology written by Luigi Boitani and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present biodiversity crisis is rife with opportunities to make important conservation decisions; however, the misuse or misapplication of the methods and techniques of animal ecology can have serious consequences for the survival of species. Still, there have been relatively few critical reviews of methodology in the field. This book provides an analysis of some of the most frequently used research techniques in animal ecology, identifying their limitations and misuses, as well as possible solutions to avoid such pitfalls. In the process, contributors to this volume present new perspectives on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data. Research Techniques in Animal Ecology is an overarching account of central theoretical and methodological controversies in the field, rather than a handbook on the minutiae of techniques. The editors have forged comprehensive presentations of key topics in animal ecology, such as territory and home range estimates, habitation evaluation, population viability analysis, GIS mapping, and measuring the dynamics of societies. Striking a careful balance, each chapter begins by assessing the shortcomings and misapplications of the techniques in question, followed by a thorough review of the current literature, and concluding with possible solutions and suggested guidelines for more robust investigations.

Download or read book Habitat Selection and Behavioural Patterns of Summering Caribou in the Mackenzie Mountains N W T written by James Quayle and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates use and selection of summer habitat and the behavioural patterns of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus)from the Redstone Herd near MacMillan Pass, NWT.

Download or read book Seeing Beyond the Trees written by David C. Natcher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The common theme throughout this text is the need to link research to management, policy, and the real-world needs of First Nation communities. Today’s forest managers must now consider the social and political context of land use, value systems and expectations, and emerging rights-based issues involving Aboriginal peoples."--pub. desc.

Download or read book Planning for Woodland Caribou Winter Habitat Needs in West central Alberta written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Ecology of Bison Movements and Distribution in and Beyond Yellowstone National Park written by Charles Cormack Gates and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Habitat Selection and Behavioural Patterns of Summering Caribou in the Mackenzie Mountains N W T microform written by James Quayle and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates use and selection of summer habitat and the behavioural patterns of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus)from the Redstone Herd near MacMillan Pass, NWT.

Download or read book Planning for Woodland Caribou Winter Habitat Needs in West central Alberta written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spatial Structure of Habitat Selection by Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Newfoundland New Multi scaled Approaches with Applications to Limiting Factors written by Stephen J. Mayor and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Habitat selection is a multi-scaled phenomenon. Selection depends on the scales perceived by organisms, while our ability to detect selection depends on analytical scale. Traditional studies of habitat selection have been limited by the use of discrete, arbitrary scales, because a quantitative basis has not existed for evaluating how animals perceive the availability of habitat. I developed new approaches based on common geostatistical and spatial analyses that use continua to represent multi-scaled winter habitat selection by caribou (Rangifer tarandus) from the perspective of the organisms, letting their responses define the scales of analysis. Caribou responded most strongly at the feeding area level, at distances up to 13 km, and at scales of patchiness of about 1 ha. Although habitat selection among levels of behaviour was hierarchical, caribou selected habitat variables across overlapping scale domains, suggesting that limiting factors were not hierarchically constrained. My results implicate habitat heterogeneity as an underlying cause of multiscaled habitat selection.

Download or read book Canadian Journal of Zoology written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Home Range and Core Area Determination Habitat Use and Sensory Effects of All Weather Access on Boreal Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Eastern Manitoba written by Doug W. Schindler and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada's boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou Gmelin) are listed as "Threatened" under the Canadian Species at Risk Act (SARA) and provincially under the Manitoba Endangered Species Act (MESA). Two of three provincially designated high-risk boreal woodland caribou ranges occur in eastern Manitoba and have been studied using Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking technology. This project was undertaken with the cooperation of the Eastern Manitoba Woodland Caribou Advisory Committee (EMWCAC). I investigated the development of an objective criterion using an adaptive kernel analysis to define core areas of use and the sensory effects of all weather access. A Habitat Suitability Index (HSI) model for woodland caribou was evaluated to determine if woodland caribou were selecting high quality habitat as defined by the model. Habitat use and selection at course and fine scales was assessed to determine landscape and stand level selection and use. A case study of habitat use and selection using forest inventory attribute data was also conducted and a comparative analysis was undertaken to determine differences in habitat use and selection between two ecologically distinct caribou populations. The criteria used to define core areas yielded mapping outputs that could provide a surrogate for critical habitat and a basis for management zoning and habitat planning. Analysis of the animal use of high quality habitat as predicted by the HSI model illustrated that woodland caribou selection of high quality habitat versus its availability is significant. Course or landscape scale habitat selection and use analysis illustrated that woodland caribou require large tracts of jack pine dominated forest containing black spruce, treed rock and muskegs. At the fine or stand level scale, woodland caribou selected habitat based on discrete variables described in the forest inventory attribute data. Woodland caribou preferred 60 - 80 year old pine dominated forest with a crown closure greater than 50%, interspersed with black spruce, rock outcrop and treed muskegs. Woodland caribou habitat containing greater proportions of treed rock and muskeg in pine dominated forest was important to woodland caribou in eastern Manitoba. The effects of the Happy Lake Road on woodland caribou use and animal energetics are measurable. Woodland caribou illustrate avoidance at approximately 2 kilometres from the road with maximum use of habitat occurring at 9 kilometres from the road. The location of the Happy Lake Road may be favourable considering the location of the Black River. Avoidance of the Happy Lake Road by the Owl Lake animals may be a function of predator and human avoidance. General management implications from this study include the use of the objective criteria for adaptive kernel analysis to determine ecologically representative core use areas that can be used in integrated management zoning. It also has application as a tool for proactive monitoring in the determination of core areas and critical habitat in resource development and mitigation.

Download or read book Mountain Caribou Calf Production and Survival and Calving and Summer Habitat Use in West Central Alberta written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Resource Selection by Animals written by B.F. Manly and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have written this book as a guide to the design and analysis of field studies of resource selection, concentrating primarily on statistical aspects of the comparison of the use and availability of resources of different types. Our intended audience is field ecologists in general and, in particular, wildlife and fisheries biologists who are attempting to measure the extent to which real animal populations are selective in their choice of food and habitat. As such, we have made no attempt to address those aspects of theoretical ecology that are concerned with how animals might choose their resources if they acted in an optimal manner. The book is based on the concept of a resource selection function (RSF), where this is a function of characteristics measured on resourceunits such that its value for a unit is proportional to the probability of that unit being used. We argue that this concept leads to a unified theory for the analysis and interpretation of data on resource selection and can replace many ad hoc statistical methods that have been used in the past.

Download or read book The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index written by Nathalie Pettorelli and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a coherent review of NDVI including its origin, its availability, its associated advantages and disadvantages, and its possible applications in ecology, environmental monitoring, wildlife management, and conservation.