| environmental and individual drivers of animal movement patterns across a wide geographical gradient. | within the rapidly developing field of movement ecology, much attention has been given to studying the movement of individuals within a subset of their population's occupied range. our understanding of the effects of landscape heterogeneity on animal movement is still fairly limited as it requires studying the movement of multiple individuals across a variety of environmental conditions. gaining deeper understanding of the environmental drivers of movement is a crucial component of predictive mo ... | 2013 | 23020517 |
| lichen conservation in heavily managed boreal forests. | lichens are an important component of the boreal forest, where they are long lived, tend to accumulate in older stands, and are a major food source for the threatened woodland caribou (rangifer tarandus caribou). to be fully sustainable, silvicultural practices in the boreal forest must include the conservation of ecological integrity. dominant forest management practices, however, have short-term negative effects on lichen diversity, particularly the application of herbicides. to better underst ... | 2013 | 23869621 |
| compensatory selection for roads over natural linear features by wolves in northern ontario: implications for caribou conservation. | woodland caribou (rangifer tarandus caribou) in ontario are a threatened species that have experienced a substantial retraction of their historic range. part of their decline has been attributed to increasing densities of anthropogenic linear features such as trails, roads, railways, and hydro lines. these features have been shown to increase the search efficiency and kill rate of wolves. however, it is unclear whether selection for anthropogenic linear features is additive or compensatory to se ... | 2017 | 29117234 |