Selection of Reserves for Woodland Caribou Using an Optimization Approach

• Main Authors: Richard R Schneider, Grant Hauer, Kimberly Dawe, Wiktor Adamowicz, Stan Boutin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Canada; Caribou Range; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031672; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0031672&type=printable

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...