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ArticleEcology and evolution2024

Morphological Traits Are Not Consistently Related to Population Size in Four Migratory Caribou Populations Across North America.

Barbara Vuillaume, Mathieu Leblond, Marco Festa-Bianchet, Steeve D Côté

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Barbara VuillaumeScience and Technology Branch Environment and Climate Change Canada Ottawa Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5099-6542
Mathieu LeblondScience and Technology Branch Environment and Climate Change Canada Ottawa Canada.
Marco Festa-BianchetDépartement de Biologie Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2352-3379
Steeve D CôtéDépartement de Biologie Caribou Ungava and Centre d'études Nordiques, Université Laval Quebec City Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To develop effective management to maintain or restore populations of large herbivores, wildlife managers require sound empirical data on their variations in size and associated parameters. Many studies have highlighted links between morphological traits of individuals and population density; however, less attention has been devoted to whether or not morphological traits can reliably inform on population size in years when no population estimates are available. We evaluated the relationships between three morphological traits (hind foot length, body mass, and body fat) and population size interpolated over three decades, for four migratory caribou (

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aerial surveylarge herbivoresmorphological traitspopulation dynamicsRangifer taranduswildlife management

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