Characterizing woodland caribou habitat in sub-boreal and boreal forests

• Main Authors: Chris J. Johnson, Nancy D. Alex, Roger D. Wheate, Katherine L. Parker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2002
• Subjects: Caribou; Landsat TM; Lichen; Supervised classification; British Columbia; Canada; Caribou Range; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.486.1907; http://web.unbc.ca/~johnsoch/Publications/Johnson et al 2003 characterizing woodland caribou habitat.pdf

Woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are sensitive to changes in understory vegetation resulting from forest harvesting and are, therefore, of special concern for foresters and habitat biologists. Effective management of this species requires reliable habitat inventories which, because of th...