Selection of Reserves for Woodland Caribou Using an Optimization Approach

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Schneider, Richard R., Hauer, Grant, Dawe, Kimberly, Adamowicz, Wiktor, Boutin, Stan
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2012
• Subjects: Research Article; Canada; Caribou Range; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3282734; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22363702; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031672

Habitat protection has been identified as an important strategy for the conservation of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus). However, because of the economic opportunity costs associated with protection it is unlikely that all caribou ranges can be protected in their entirety. We used an optimizati...