Seasonal Habitat Selection by Resident and Translocated Caribou in Relation to Cougar Predation Risk

• Main Author: Leech, Heather
• Other Authors: Jelinski, Dennis E.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: British Columbia; habitat selection; predation risk; Puma concolor; Rangifer taradus caribou; resource selection functions; seasonality; Canada; Canis lupus; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5974

Mountain caribou, an arboreal lichen-feeding ecotype of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), have been extirpated from much of their historic range. Mountain caribou are federally listed as Endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) and red-listed b...