Roads, logging, and the large-mammal community of an eastern Canadian boreal forest

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Zoology
• Main Authors: Bowman, Jeff, Ray, Justina C., Magoun, Audrey J., Johnson, Devin S., Dawson, F. Neil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2010
• Subjects: Zimmerman; Alces alces; Canis lupus; gray wolf; Gulo gulo; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z10-019; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/full-xml/10.1139/z10-019; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/z10-019

We evaluated hypotheses concerning the distributions of large mammals in a 60 000 km 2 study area that encompassed the contact zone between Ontario’s roadless north and the postlogging southern landscape. We estimated occurrence probability in 575 sample units for woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandu...