Kari E. Gunson
Parks Canada
10 Papers
67 Citations
Kari E. Gunson is an academic researcher from Parks Canada. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Wildlife crossing. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 10 publications.
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Papers
Spatial patterns and factors influencing small vertebrate fauna road-kill aggregations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the spatial patterns and factors influencing small terrestrial vertebrate road-kill aggregations in the Bow River Valley, Alberta, Canada, and found that road-kills tended to occur close to vegetative cover and far from wildlife passages or culverts.
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GIS-Generated, Expert-Based Models for Identifying Wildlife Habitat Linkages and Planning Mitigation Passages
TL;DR: This article developed three black bear habitat models in the context of a geographic information system to identify linkage areas across a major transportation corridor, and validated the performance of the models with an independent data set.
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Drainage culverts as habitat linkages and factors affecting passage by mammals
Anthony P. Clevenger,Anthony P. Clevenger,Anthony P. Clevenger,Bryan Chruszcz,Kari E. Gunson +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the use of drainage culverts by small-and medium-sized mammals along roads in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada during the winters of 1999 and 2000, and obtained expected passage frequencies by sampling relative species abundance along transects at the ends of each culvert.
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Relationships among grizzly bears, highways, and habitat in the Banff-Bow Valley, Alberta, Canada
TL;DR: Efforts to prevent loss of habitat connectivity across highways should involve maintenance of high-quality grizzly bear habitat adjacent to roads and should address the effects of traffic volume on the road-crossing decisions of grizzly bears.
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Large animal-vehicle collisions in the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains: patterns and characteristics
Kari E. Gunson,Bryan Chruszcz,Anthony P. Clevenger +2 more
- 24 Aug 2003
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the demographic and temporal patterns of elk and wildlife-vehicle collisions on different road-types in the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains and found that the average reporting error from park wardens, highway maintenance contractors and from Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) data ranged from 300m-2000m.