Nesting habitat selection and distribution of an avian top predator in the Canadian Arctic

• Main Authors: Peck, Kristen, Franke, Alastair, Lecomte, Nicolas, Bêty, Joël
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: NRC Research Press (a division of Canadian Science Publishing) 2018
• Subjects: Arctic; Nunavut; Climate change; Falco peregrinus; peregrine falcon
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/88494; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/AS-2017-0048

Detecting and planning for ecosystem changes from climate and land-use alteration is limited by uncertainty about the current distribution of many species. This is exacerbated in remote areas like the Arctic, where the impacts of climate change are the strongest and where industrial exploration and development are expanding. Using remotely-sensed environmental information and known nest sites, we estimated the breeding distribution and habitat selection of the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) throughout most of Nunavut, a massive northern Canadian territory (ă 1.8 M km The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author.