Indigenous knowledge and science unite to reveal spatial and temporal dimensions of distributional shift in wildlife of conservation concern.

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Christina N Service, Megan S Adams, Kyle A Artelle, Paul Paquet, Laura V Grant, Chris T Darimont
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Canada; British Columbia; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101595; https://doaj.org/article/96d73f068c43448b9406dca522530ab0

Range shifts among wildlife can occur rapidly and impose cascading ecological, economic, and cultural consequences. However, occurrence data used to define distributional limits derived from scientific approaches are often outdated for wide ranging and elusive species, especially in remote environme...