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: Service, Christina N., Adams, Megan S., Artelle, Kyle A., Paquet, Paul, Grant, Laura V., Darimont, Chris T.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2014
• Subjects: Research Article; British Columbia; Canada; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4108310; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25054635; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101595

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 However, occurrence data used to define distributional limits derived from scientific approaches are often outdated for wide ranging and elusive species, especially in remote environme...