Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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Resource Date:
December
2021
The most widely reported threat to populations of boreal and mountain woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) involves what has come to be known as disturbance-mediated apparent competition...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Monitoring of the Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou ) boreal population (hereafter boreal caribou) presents many challenges, as boreal caribou are broadly distributed in densely...
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Authors
Isabelle Schmelzer
Keith Lewis
John Jacobs
Sara McCarthy
Resource Date:
April
2020
Highlights Boreal caribou persistence has been affected by landscape disturbance and subsequent apparent competition. Climatic conditions also affect caribou via energy gains and losses and indirectly...
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Authors
Quinn Webber
Eric Vander Wal
Group size can vary in relation to population density, habitat, and season. Habitat and season may also interact with population density and affect group size through varying foraging benefits of...
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Authors
Libby Ehlers
Gabrielle Coulombe
Jim Herriges
Torsten Bentzen
Michael Suitor
Kyle Joly
Mark Hebblewhite
Summer diets are crucial for large herbivores in the subarctic and are affected by weather, harassment from insects and a variety of environmental changes linked to climate. Yet, understanding...
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Authors
Tyler Rudolph
Pierre Drapeau
Louis Imbeau
Vincent Brodeur
Sonia Legare
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Resource Date:
January
2017
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Authors
Martin LeClerc
Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Mael Le Corre
Steeve Côté
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Authors
Branden Neufeld
Clara Superbie
Ruth Greuel
Thomas Perry
Patricia Tomchuk
Daniel Fortin
Philip McLoughlin
Resource Date:
December
2020
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Authors
Alexandre Lafontaine
Pierre Drapeau
Daniel Fortin
Sylvie Gauthier
Yan Boulanger
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Studying the response of wildlife to anthropogenic disturbances in light of their evolutionary history may help explain their capacity to adapt to novel ecological conditions. In the North American...
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Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) have experienced large range recessions and population declines across much of Canada’s boreal forest in the last century and have become a...
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A 30-page report from 2012 on the Yukon portion of the herd’s range. It includes discussion of the potential impacts of forest fires. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou...
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Authors
Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Resource Date:
September
2013
Anthropogenic disturbances have been demonstrated to affect animal behavior, distribution, and abundance, but assessment of their impacts on fitness-related traits has received little attention. We...
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Authors
Emily Chenery
Maud Henaff
Kristenn Magnusson
Jane Harms
Nicholas Mandrak
Péter Molnár
Surveying ticks on wildlife hosts consistently over time and across space presents many challenges. In Yukon, Canada, the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, is a blood-feeding parasite that can...
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Authors
Hans Skatter
Michael Charlebois
S. Eftestøl
D. Tsegaye
J.E. Colman
John Kansas
K. Flydal
Brady Balicki
We tested [the potential habitat value of postfire residuals] using 2 years of GPS data obtained from 56 female caribou to identify calving site selection. 79 calving events were identified from...
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Authors
Keith Lewis
Stephen Gullage
David Fifield
David Jennings
Shane Mahoney
Resource Date:
September
2016
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Authors
Clara Superbie
Kathrine Stewart
Charlotte Regan
Jill Johnstone
Philip McLoughlin
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Authors
Hans Skatter
John Kansas
Michael Charlebois
Brady Balicki
Resource Date:
February
2014
In boreal forests, wildfire is a dominant ecological process that affects the distribution and abundance of terrestrial lichens, the principal winter food for Woodland Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus...
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Authors
Jeff Bowman
Justina Ray
Audrey Magoun
Devin Johnson
Neil Dawson
Resource Date:
April
2010
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Authors
Madeleine McGreer
Erin Mallon
Lucas Vander Vennen
Philip Wiebe
James Baker
Glen Brown
Tal Avgar
Jevon Hagens
Andrew Kittle
Anna Mosser
Garrett Street
Doug Reid
Arthur Rodgers
Jennifer Shuter
Ian Thompson
Merritt Turetsky
Steven Newmaster
Brent Patterson
John Fryxell
Resource Date:
December
2015
The relationship between selection at coarse and fine spatiotemporal spatial scales is still poorly understood. Some authors claim that, to accommodate different needs at different scales, individuals...
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Authors
Fabien St-Pierre
Pierre Drapeau
Martin-Hughes St-Laurent
Resource Date:
February
2022
By showing which forest roads are more used by caribou predators (wolves and bears) and its apparent competitor (moose), our study highlights the importance of considering both road-scale characteristics and the landscape context in which roads are built to prioritize the most detrimental roads to caribou conservation and guide efficient restoration efforts of its habitat.