Long‐Term Range Recession and the Persistence of Caribou in the Taiga

• Published in: Conservation Biology
• Main Author: Schaefer, James A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2003
• Subjects: Canada; Caribou Range; Rangifer tarandus; taiga
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02288.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1523-1739.2003.02288.x; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.02288.x/fullpdf

Abstract: Spatial patterns can help in understanding the decline and future prospects of threatened species, but the dynamics of range retraction have not been applied to these fundamental questions. I analyzed long‐term changes in occupancy by taiga‐dwelling caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou ) to...