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

• Published in: Movement Ecology
• Main Authors: Steeve D. Côté, Mathieu Leblond, Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2016
• Subjects: Behaviour; Climate; Long-distance migration; Migratory caribou; Movements; Rangifer tarandus; Scales; Step selection function; Space use; Caribou des bois > Migration > Facteurs climatiques; Research; envir; geo; Arctic; Canada; Rivière aux Feuilles; Climate change
• Online Access: https://corpus.ulaval.ca/jspui/bitstream/20.500.11794/1061/1/2016%20Leblond_etal%20ME.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4; http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4; https://movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4; https://movementecologyjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4; https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC4837602; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27099756; https://core.ac.uk/display/81831716; https://corpus.ulaval.ca/jspui/handle/20.500.11794/1061;mode=full; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/1061;mode=full; https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2339707562; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/1061; http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4837602

Background 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...