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- Title
Road densities and wolf, Canis lupus, habitat suitability: an exception
- Authors
Merrill, Samuel B.
- Abstract
Several studies have suggested that Gray Wolf populations are jeopardized at road densities > 0.58 km/km2. One landscape modelpredicting wolf occupancy based on road densities which were not higher than 0.45 km/km2 (Mladenoff et al. 1995) has been supported with field data (Mladenoff et al. 1999). In one example in central Minnesota, wolves are breeding successfully in an area with a road density of 1.42 km/km2. This situation illustrates the point that road density is an index of in the in high-speed vehicles and human attitudes, and there are situations when road density alone is not an accurate index of wolf habitat suitability.
- Subjects
MINNESOTA; UNITED States; MODELING (Sculpture); WOLVES; HABITATS; POPULATION dynamics; ANIMALS
- Publication
Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2000, Vol 114, Issue 2, p312
- ISSN
0008-3550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5962/p.363968