Data from: Natural regeneration on seismic lines influences movement behaviour of wolves and grizzly bears ...

• Main Authors: Finnegan, Laura, Pigeon, Karine E., Cranston, Jerome, Hebblewhite, Mark, Musiani, Marco, Neufeld, Lalenia, Schmiegelow, Fiona, Duval, Julie, Stenhouse, Gordon B.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2019
• Subjects: grizzly bear; Ursus arctos; wolf; Rangifer tarandus; Seismic line; Holocene; Canis lupus; Canada
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.7687117; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.7687117

Across the boreal forest of Canada, habitat disturbance is the ultimate cause of caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) declines. Habitat restoration is a focus of caribou recovery efforts, with a goal to finding ways to reduce predator use of disturbances, and caribou-predator encounters. One of the most pervasive disturbances within caribou ranges in Alberta, Canada are seismic lines cleared for energy exploration. Seismic lines facilitate predator movement, and although vegetation on some seismic lines is regenerating, it remains unknown whether vegetation regrowth is sufficient to alter predator response. We used Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data, and GPS locations, to understand how vegetation and other attributes of seismic lines influence movements of two predators, wolves (Canis lupus) and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). During winter, wolves moved towards seismic lines regardless of vegetation height, while during spring wolves moved towards seismic lines with higher vegetation. During summer, ... : Wolf denningWolf SSF data in the denning seasonWolf nomadicWolf SSF data in the nomadic seasonWolf rendezvousWolf SSF data in the rendezvous seasonWolf_rateWolf movement rate dataGB_femalefallFemale grizzly bear SSF data in fallGB_femalespringFemale grizzly bear SSF data in springGB_femalesummerFemale grizzly bear SSF data in summerGB_malefallMale grizzly bear SSF data in fallGB_malespringMale grizzly bear SSF data in springGB_malesummerMale grizzly bear SSF data in summerGBfemale_rateFemale grizzly bear movement rate dataGBmale_rateMale grizzly bear movement rate data ...