Long-Distance Wolverine Dispersal from Wyoming to Historic Range in Colorado

摘要: Abstract Wolverines (Gulo gulo) within the conterminous U.S. exist as a metapopulation dependent upon individuals dispersing between patches of habitat to persist. Dispersal events can be difficult document for long-ranging carnivores, but have implications understanding gene flow and connectivity both currently occupied historically habitat. Here, we describe long-distance dispersal subadult, male wolverine (M56) from reproductive population in northwest Wyoming northern Colorado where wolverines had been absent 90 years. M56 was ultimately killed North Dakota 2016, first verified that state over 200 Following capture collaring, collected aerial VHF telemetry locations navigated potential barriers, including interstate highways subdivisions, travelled extensively outside primary through arid grasslands shrublands Basin Ecoregion. Straight-line distances disp...