Data from: Movement responses of caribou to human-induced habitat edges lead to their aggregation near anthropogenic features

• Main Authors: Fortin, Daniel, Buono, Pietro-Luciano, Fortin, André, Courbin, Nicolas, Gingras, Christian The, Moorcroft, Paul R., Courtois, Réhaume, Dussault, Claude
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Dryad 2020
• Subjects: Conservation Biology; Boreal forest; Ecology: spatial; Theory; Ecology: behavioral; Ecology: landscape; Life sciences; medicine and health care; envir; geo; Gam; caribou
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.kh356

The assessment of disturbance effects on wildlife and resulting mitigation efforts are founded on edge-effect theory. According to the classical view, the abundance of animals affected by human disturbance should increase monotonically with distance from disturbed areas to reach a maximum at remote...