Download or read book Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou Home Range and Habitat use Relationships to Industrial Activity in Northeastern Alberta written by Boyan Vsevolod Tracz and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 198 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 Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou Habitat Classification in Northeastern Alberta Using Remote Sensing written by Gerardo-Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa and published by Alberta Public Affairs Bureau. This book was released on 2001 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peatland Habitat Use and Selection by Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Northern Alberta microform written by Robert B. Anderson and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peatland Habitat Use and Selection by Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Northern Alberta written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 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 Woodland caribou Rangifer tarandus caribou habitat classification in northeastern Alberta using remote sensing written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodland Caribou Population Dynamics in Northeastern Alberta written by T. K. Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ongoing oil sand development in the Athabasca oil sand area of north-east Alberta will soon expose the woodland caribou in that area to markedly increased human disturbance. This study was initiated to obtain information on current abundance & distribution of caribou within the area, and on other key elements of population dynamics that will be needed for management. The report describes the dynamics of the caribou population in the Birch Mountain area, as determined by field studies carried out from January 1976 to June 1978. Research methods included examination & radio tracking of radio collared animals and visual tracking of animals after snowfall. Results are presented with regard to caribou physical characteristics, population density & distribution, age composition, sex ratios, survival of calves & adults, seasonal movements & ranges, and habitat use.

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 Movement and Distribution of Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Response to Industrial Development in Northeastern Alberta written by Simon James Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Close Encounters of the Burned Kind written by Kelsey L.M. Russell and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest fire is the primary natural disturbance process influencing the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens across ranges of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), including the Klaza Caribou Herd in west-central Yukon. I used stand and understory data to understand variation in the abundance of lichens in burns of various ages. Focusing on the distribution of individual caribou, I used a dataset of GPS collar locations to examine resource selection on the winter range and within burns. Results suggested that burns provided suboptimal habitat for the KCH until 50 years post-fire; however, analyses focused on the use of burned habitat indicated that they regularly encountered burns and opportunistically used remnant lichen within the burn perimeter. The relationship between caribou and burned landscapes is complex and non-linear indicating that wildlife managers should look beyond burn age to account for the effects of fire on the availability and quality of caribou habitat.

Download or read book Habitat Use by Woodland Caribou in a Managed Boreal Forest Landscape written by Terrence J. C. Honsberger and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou ) populations throughout much of the boreal forest have decreased as a result of changes to forest composition, including an increase in moose (Alces alces ) and wolf (Canis lupus ) density with increased predation on caribou. For this study, a multi-scalar analysis of Argos telemetry data from 18 radio-collared caribou during 2000-2009 in northwestern Ontario compared their use of habitat in a landscape with a longer history of logging (Lake Nipigon area) with their use of habitat in an adjacent, less exploited landscape, managed following caribou mosaic guidelines (Ogoki area). The objective was to determine whether differences in caribou habitat use occurred with varying availability of winter habitat patches and varying moose density for these two landscapes."-- from abstract.

Download or read book Habitat Management in the Yukon Winter Range of the Little Rancheria Caribou Herd written by Jan Adamczewski and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodland Caribou Restoration at Isle Royale National Park written by Jean Fitts Cochrane and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Status of the Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in Alberta written by Alberta. Alberta Environment and published by Alberta Environment. This book was released on 2001 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2000 2001 Progress Report on Caribou Research in West Central Alberta written by Tara Szkorupa and published by Alberta, Fisheries & Wildlife Management Division, Resource Status and Assessment Branch. This book was released on 2001 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Woodland Caribou Rangifer Tarandus Caribou in the Far North of Ontario written by Kenneth F. Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Far North Caribou Project (FNCP) was initiated in 2008 to support land use and resource planning in the Far North of Ontario using caribou knowledge derived from aerial and ground surveys, remote monitoring through the use of caribou tracked by satellite collars, and aboriginal traditional knowledge. The findings described in this report include: The distribution and movement patterns of caribou in the Far North, How Ontario managers might differentiate between the two boreal woodland caribou ecotypes and use this information to refine the current ecotype boundary, Population dynamics for caribou in the Far North, general habitat use patterns including apparent behaviours exhibited during the calving season, and Insight into caribou ecology and management"--Executive summary.