Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland
Landscapes can influence the distribution of harvesting by influencing animal distribution and hunter access. For species like caribou, Rangifer tarandus , decades-long shifts in abundance and distribution might alter such relationships, but few studies have been conducted at such scales. We examine...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.16586003.v1 2023-05-15T15:53:24+02:00 Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland McNamara, Jordan A. Schaefer, James A. Bastille-Rousseau, Guillaume Mahoney, Shane P. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586003.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Landscape_features_and_caribou_harvesting_during_three_decades_in_Newfoundland/16586003/1 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2021.1969825 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586003 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode cc-by-4.0 CC-BY 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences Ecology FOS Biological sciences Sociology FOS Sociology 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified Developmental Biology Marine Biology Science Policy Dataset dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586003.v1 https://doi.org/10.1080/11956860.2021.1969825 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586003 2022-03-10T13:50:04Z Landscapes can influence the distribution of harvesting by influencing animal distribution and hunter access. For species like caribou, Rangifer tarandus , decades-long shifts in abundance and distribution might alter such relationships, but few studies have been conducted at such scales. We examined relationships between landscape features and 21,380 harvest records of migratory caribou in Newfoundland during caribou population growth (1980s), cessation of growth (1990s), and decline (2000s). We focused on features hypothesized to influence the distributions of caribou and hunters: lichen landcover, roads, cutblocks, outfitter camps, power lines, and towns. We uncovered larger harvests by resident hunters of male and female caribou among lichen landcover, likely providing preferred caribou forage, and larger harvests by non-resident hunters of male caribou away from towns, reflecting the locations of outfitter camps. Only during later decades, resident harvests occurred nearer power lines and cutblocks, likely providing hunter access and reflecting risk-prone foraging by caribou. We surmise that the harvest was facilitated by open habitats, preferred by caribou, and anthropogenic features leading to hunter access, especially as the caribou population declined. Such knowledge at broad scales is increasingly important in an era of widespread disruption to landscapes. Dataset caribou Newfoundland Rangifer tarandus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) |
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Landscapes can influence the distribution of harvesting by influencing animal distribution and hunter access. For species like caribou, Rangifer tarandus , decades-long shifts in abundance and distribution might alter such relationships, but few studies have been conducted at such scales. We examined relationships between landscape features and 21,380 harvest records of migratory caribou in Newfoundland during caribou population growth (1980s), cessation of growth (1990s), and decline (2000s). We focused on features hypothesized to influence the distributions of caribou and hunters: lichen landcover, roads, cutblocks, outfitter camps, power lines, and towns. We uncovered larger harvests by resident hunters of male and female caribou among lichen landcover, likely providing preferred caribou forage, and larger harvests by non-resident hunters of male caribou away from towns, reflecting the locations of outfitter camps. Only during later decades, resident harvests occurred nearer power lines and cutblocks, likely providing hunter access and reflecting risk-prone foraging by caribou. We surmise that the harvest was facilitated by open habitats, preferred by caribou, and anthropogenic features leading to hunter access, especially as the caribou population declined. Such knowledge at broad scales is increasingly important in an era of widespread disruption to landscapes. |
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Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland |
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Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland |
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Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland |
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Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland |
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Landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in Newfoundland |
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landscape features and caribou harvesting during three decades in newfoundland |
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