Data from: Caribou, water, and ice – fine-scale movements of a migratory arctic ungulate in the context of climate change

• Main Authors: Leblond, Mathieu, St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues, Côté, Steeve D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Behaviour; Climate; Global change; Long-distance migration; Migratory caribou; Movements; Phenology; Scales; Space use; Step selection function; Arctic; Canada; Rivière aux Feuilles; Climate change; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.113791; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.4k275

Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during which ice conditions are favourable for locomotion, freshwater bodies could become impediments to the inter-patc...