Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario
Two summers' field surveys at 9 locations in northwestern Ontario showed that woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) wintering areas supported jack pine and black spruce stands with low tree densities (mean 1552 trees/ ha, 39% of a fully stocked stand), low basal areas (mean 14.14 m2/ha),...
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ftunitroemsoe:oai:ojs.henry.ub.uit.no:article/1553 2023-05-15T18:03:55+02:00 Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario Antoniak, K. Cumming, H.G. 1998-03-01 application/pdf https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1553 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1553 eng eng Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1553/1458 https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1553 doi:10.7557/2.18.5.1553 Copyright (c) 2015 K. Antoniak, H.G. Cumming http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ CC-BY Rangifer; Vol 18 (1998): Special Issue No. 10; 157-168 1890-6729 woodland caribou Ontario Rangifer tarandus caribou landsat habitat timber stands wintering use HSI info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 1998 ftunitroemsoe https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1553 2021-08-16T15:00:55Z Two summers' field surveys at 9 locations in northwestern Ontario showed that woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) wintering areas supported jack pine and black spruce stands with low tree densities (mean 1552 trees/ ha, 39% of a fully stocked stand), low basal areas (mean 14.14 m2/ha), low volumes (mean 116 mVha, 68% of Normal Yield Tables) and short heights (95% of stands 12 m or less). Ecologically, most sights were classed V30. Significantly more lichen (averaging 39% lichen ground cover) was found on plots used by caribou. Three measured areas showed few shrubs, possibly enhancing escape possibilities and reducing browse attractive to moose. An HIS model predicted known locations of caribou winter habitat from FRI data with 76% accuracy. Landsat imagery theme 3 (open conifer) produced 74% accuracy. Combining these methods permitted prediction of all 50 test sites. The low volumes of timber found in caribou wintering areas suggest that setting aside reserves for caribou winter habitat would not sacrifice as much wood product value as might at first appear. Article in Journal/Newspaper Rangifer Rangifer tarandus University of Tromsø: Septentrio Academic Publishing Rangifer 18 5 157 |
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Two summers' field surveys at 9 locations in northwestern Ontario showed that woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) wintering areas supported jack pine and black spruce stands with low tree densities (mean 1552 trees/ ha, 39% of a fully stocked stand), low basal areas (mean 14.14 m2/ha), low volumes (mean 116 mVha, 68% of Normal Yield Tables) and short heights (95% of stands 12 m or less). Ecologically, most sights were classed V30. Significantly more lichen (averaging 39% lichen ground cover) was found on plots used by caribou. Three measured areas showed few shrubs, possibly enhancing escape possibilities and reducing browse attractive to moose. An HIS model predicted known locations of caribou winter habitat from FRI data with 76% accuracy. Landsat imagery theme 3 (open conifer) produced 74% accuracy. Combining these methods permitted prediction of all 50 test sites. The low volumes of timber found in caribou wintering areas suggest that setting aside reserves for caribou winter habitat would not sacrifice as much wood product value as might at first appear. |
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Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario |
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Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario |
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Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario |
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Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario |
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Analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in Ontario |
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analysis of forest stands used by wintering woodland caribou in ontario |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing |
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1998 |
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https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/1553 https://doi.org/10.7557/2.18.5.1553 |
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