Data for: Temporal variations in female moose responses to roads and logging in the absence of wolves ...
Animal movements, needed to acquire food resources, avoid predation risk, and find breeding partners, are influenced by annual and circadian cycles. Decisions related to movement reflect a quest to maximize benefits while limiting costs, especially in heterogeneous landscapes. Predation by wolves (C...
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Dryad
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dfn2z357t https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dfn2z357t |
| Summary: | Animal movements, needed to acquire food resources, avoid predation risk, and find breeding partners, are influenced by annual and circadian cycles. Decisions related to movement reflect a quest to maximize benefits while limiting costs, especially in heterogeneous landscapes. Predation by wolves (Canis lupus) has been identified as the major driver of moose (Alces alces) habitat selection patterns, and linear features have been shown to increase wolf efficiency to travel, hunt and kill prey. However, few studies have described moose behavioral response to roads and logging in Canada in the absence of wolves. We thus characterized temporal changes (i.e., day phases and biological periods) in eastern moose (Alces alces americana) habitat selection and space use patterns near a road network in a wolf-free area located south of the St. Lawrence River (eastern Canada). We used telemetry data collected on 18 females between 2017 and 2019 to build resource selection functions and mixed linear regressions to ... : Telemetry data were collected on 20 moose (2 males, 18 females; 151,029 GPS locations) between 2017 and 2019. Capture and handling took place in February and March 2017, and our protocols were approved by the ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les Changements Climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (hereafter MELCCFP; wildlife management permit SEG # 2017-02-10-010-01-S-F) and by the Animal Welfare Committee of the Université du Québec à Rimouski (hereafter UQAR; certificate CPA #68-17-183). We delineated 5 biological periods (winter, spring/green-up, calving, summer/rearing, fall/rut) and 2 day phases (day, dusk-night-dawn) in order to consider the temporal variations in moose behavior associated with these factors. We determined the cut-off dates of the biological periods by identifying breaks in the distribution of mean movement rates in function of Julian days and using the available knowledge on moose ecology (Hundertmark, 2007; Leblond et al., 2010); we did so for each individual-year ... |
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