Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales
I investigated movement by forest-dwelling woodland caribou (' Rangifer tarandus caribou') at multiple temporal scales, to clarify how, when and where they move and to determine the extent to which caribou movement behaviour may be influenced by variation in extrinsic and intrinsic conditi...
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ftunivguelph:oai:atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca:10214/26024 2023-11-05T03:44:44+01:00 Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales Shuter, Jennifer L. Fryxell, John M. Nudds, Thomas D. 2010 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10214/26024 en eng University of Guelph https://hdl.handle.net/10214/26024 All items in the Atrium are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. woodland caribou movement behaviour temporal scales extrinsic conditions intrinsic conditions Thesis 2010 ftunivguelph 2023-10-08T06:09:54Z I investigated movement by forest-dwelling woodland caribou (' Rangifer tarandus caribou') at multiple temporal scales, to clarify how, when and where they move and to determine the extent to which caribou movement behaviour may be influenced by variation in extrinsic and intrinsic conditions. First, I developed a formal methodology for characterizing annual movements by mobile organisms and applied it to caribou space use patterns to determine whether movement was consistent with round-trip migration or other forms of movement. I also assessed whether annual, regional and individual variation in movement at the annual scale was consistent with a fixed or conditional basis for annual movement patterns. 1tligration was the dominant form of space use at both population and individual scales. While there was limited evidence for partial migration, caribou exhibited considerable annual variation in migration distance, as well as considerable between and within-individual variation in migration distance, consistent with the hypothesis that the migratory behaviour of individual caribou is conditional and strongly influenced by environmental variability. Next, I applied a behaviour-driven approach to evaluate caribou movement behaviour at several spatio-temporal scales (i.e., step, path and range) to determine whether round-trip annual migrations by caribou were produced by seasonal switches in movement behaviour. Net displacement and linearity of caribou movements defined four distinct seasons and three types of movement behaviour: sedentary "station-keeping" in summer and late winter, directed "migration" in spring and exploratory "ranging" in late autumn-early winter. Finally, I looked at the relationship between environmental conditions and caribou movement at the step scale to determine which conditions were most strongly associated with seasonal and within-season variation in caribou movement behaviour and whether variation in the timing and duration of behavioural seasons was more consistent with facultative or ... Thesis Rangifer tarandus University of Guelph: DSpace digital archive |
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I investigated movement by forest-dwelling woodland caribou (' Rangifer tarandus caribou') at multiple temporal scales, to clarify how, when and where they move and to determine the extent to which caribou movement behaviour may be influenced by variation in extrinsic and intrinsic conditions. First, I developed a formal methodology for characterizing annual movements by mobile organisms and applied it to caribou space use patterns to determine whether movement was consistent with round-trip migration or other forms of movement. I also assessed whether annual, regional and individual variation in movement at the annual scale was consistent with a fixed or conditional basis for annual movement patterns. 1tligration was the dominant form of space use at both population and individual scales. While there was limited evidence for partial migration, caribou exhibited considerable annual variation in migration distance, as well as considerable between and within-individual variation in migration distance, consistent with the hypothesis that the migratory behaviour of individual caribou is conditional and strongly influenced by environmental variability. Next, I applied a behaviour-driven approach to evaluate caribou movement behaviour at several spatio-temporal scales (i.e., step, path and range) to determine whether round-trip annual migrations by caribou were produced by seasonal switches in movement behaviour. Net displacement and linearity of caribou movements defined four distinct seasons and three types of movement behaviour: sedentary "station-keeping" in summer and late winter, directed "migration" in spring and exploratory "ranging" in late autumn-early winter. Finally, I looked at the relationship between environmental conditions and caribou movement at the step scale to determine which conditions were most strongly associated with seasonal and within-season variation in caribou movement behaviour and whether variation in the timing and duration of behavioural seasons was more consistent with facultative or ... |
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Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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Movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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movement behaviour of woodland caribou at multiple temporal scales |
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