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

• Published in: Movement Ecology
• Main Authors: Côté, Steeve D., St-Laurent, Martin-Hugues, Leblond, Mathieu
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2016
• Subjects: Behaviour; Climate; Global change; Long-distance migration; Migratory caribou; Movements; Phenology; Rangifer tarandus; Scales; Step selection function; Space use; Caribou des bois > Migration > Facteurs climatiques; Arctic; Canada; Rivière aux Feuilles; Climate change
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/1061; https://doi.org/10.1186/s40462-016-0079-4

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 th...