Data from: Temporal road closures improve habitat quality for wildlife ...

• Main Authors: Whittington, Jesse, Low, Petah, Hunt, Bill
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: grizzly bear; wolf; Roads; Odocoileus hemionus; Cervus canadensis; Ursus arctos; temporal closure; human use; Holocene; Canis lupus; remote camera; habitat fragmentation; Odocoileus virginianus; Canada
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.5cv05bc; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.5cv05bc

Increasing levels of human activity threaten wildlife populations through direct mortality, habitat degradation, and habitat fragmentation. Area closures can improve habitat quality for wildlife, but may be difficult to achieve where tourism or other economic drivers are a priority. Temporal closures that limit human use during specific times of day have potential to increase habitat quality for wildlife, while continuing to provide opportunities for human use. However, the effectiveness of daily temporal closures has not been tested. We assessed how implementation of a temporal road closure affected wildlife movements in Banff National Park. Parks Canada closed a popular 17 km stretch of road between 2000 and 0800 hours to improve habitat quality for wildlife. We assessed the effectiveness of the closure on nine mammal species using three sets of data: remote cameras, road surveys, and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) GPS data. In all three analyses, wildlife detection rates on the road doubled during the ... : Temporal Closure Data and R ScriptThree data sets (remote camera, grizzly bear GPS, road side observation surveys), associated read me files, and an R script for running analyses.TemporalClosuresDataDryad.zip ...