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Do trappers understand marten habitat?

Philip A Wiebe, John M Fryxell, Ian D Thompson, Luca Borger Orcid Logo, James A Baker

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume: 77, Issue: 2, Pages: 379 - 391

Swansea University Author: Luca Borger Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1002/jwmg.471

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Previous studies of the effects of fur trapping on marten populations have not considered habitat variation and how trappers use available habitat. We investigated the behavior of fur trappers with respect to roads, waterways, and the forest habitats that they used on their trap lines, using registe...

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Published: 2013
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description Previous studies of the effects of fur trapping on marten populations have not considered habitat variation and how trappers use available habitat. We investigated the behavior of fur trappers with respect to roads, waterways, and the forest habitats that they used on their trap lines, using registered trap lines in northern Ontario as a study system. The objectives of this study were to (1) develop models for predicting trap location based on access and habitat features, (2) determine whether trappers target the same habitat preferred by American marten, and (3) investigate effects of spatial resolution on predictive models, using GIS for coarse resolution variables and direct forest mensuration for fine resolution variables. Distance to roads and water was by far the most important factor in logistic models for predicting trap presence, accounting for 51.2 to 61.7% of the observed deviance. At a coarse spatial resolution, trappers selected sites that were close to vehicular access, and in older mixed wood forest stands. Similarly, at a coarse resolution marten selected old stands, but dominated by coniferous trees. At a finer spatial resolution, trappers selected sites with high basal area of trees, pronounced proportion of black spruce, high canopy cover, and high density of coarse woody debris, consistent with previous studies on marten habitat selection at a fine resolution. Although coarse resolution models are more easily applicable because of the wide availability of GIS land cover data, fine resolution models had higher predictive power when considering habitat variables. By quantifying trapper behaviors, these results suggest that the effectiveness of marten sanctuaries used in forest management depend not only on the age and species composition of forest stands left un-logged, but also on the degree to which they are accessible to trappers.
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