Energy Infrastructure Clears the Way for Coyotes in Alberta's Oil Sands.

ABSTRACT: Energy extraction and development are fragmenting the landscape in Canada's oil sands region, creating patches of boreal forest connected by millions of kilometers of cleared linear features. The impacts of oil and gas disturbance on some wildlife species, like caribou and wolves, have been a topic of much research; yet, the influence of energy development on other species, like coyotes-which have recently expanded into the boreal forest and established strong populations-is not well understood. Here, we assessed the effects of linear features on coyote distribution and interspecific interactions by deploying camera traps across multiple landscapes of varying energy disturbance intensities. Using an information theoretic approach, we tested hypotheses about the effects of linear feature ty

SUBMITTER: Clarke JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12360962 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature