Summer response distances of Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus to provocation by humans on foot

• Published in: Wildlife Biology
• Main Authors: Colman, Jonathan E., Jacobsen, Bente W., Reimers, Eigil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2001
• Subjects: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Svalbard; Adventdalen; Reinsdyrflya; Rangifer tarandus; Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus; svalbard reindeer
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.2981/wlb.2001.032; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.2981/wlb.2001.032; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.2981/wlb.2001.032

The objective of our study was to examine response distances of Svalbard reindeer Rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus to direct provocation by humans on foot during summer in areas subject to combinations of high or low human activity, and hunting or no hunting. We hypothesised that Svalbard reindeer ca...