Caribou, water, and ice – fine-scale movements of a migratory arctic ungulate in the context of climate change

• Main Authors: Leblond, Mathieu, St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues, Côté, Steeve
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd. 2016
• Subjects: Behaviour; Climate; Global change; Long-distance migration; Migratory caribou; Movements; Phenology; Rangifer tarandus; Scales; Space use; Step selection function; Arctic; Canada; Rivière aux Feuilles; Climate change
• Online Access: http://www.movementecologyjournal.com/content/4/1/14

Abstract Background Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during which ice conditions are favourable for locomotion, freshwater bodies could become impedimen...