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Canadian Geographic Article: How highways are hurting the wolverine's genetic diversity

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2017-02-13 18:54:53
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2017-02-13 18:56:18
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2016-11-16

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Fraser Los(Author), Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative(administrator), Anthony Clevenger(Principal Investigator), LCC Network Data Steward(administrator), 2017-02-13(creation), 2017-02-13(lastUpdate), 2016-11-16(Acquisition), Canadian Geographic Article: How highways are hurting the wolverine's genetic diversity

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Wolverines are the essence of wilderness. High in the mountains, they lurk near avalanche paths and earn their Latin name, Gulo gulo (glutton), by gorging on half-buried animals and breaking bones with powerful jaws. They traverse deep snows with plate-sized feet and scale mountain summits so quickly it puts the world’s greatest human mountaineers to shame.Although far from timid, wolverines are highly sensitive to human disturbance, says biologist Tony Clevenger, who’s been studying them in the Canadian Rockies for more than six years. “They’re big weasels with very fast metabolisms,” he says, “so they can’t just survive high up in the alpine on a rock; they also have to travel the valleys between those high passes.”On a sunny day [...]

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