TY - JOUR AU - Whitten, K. R. AU - Cameron, R. D. PY - 1986/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Groups versus individuals in the determination of caribou distribution JF - Rangifer JA - Ran VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.7557/2.6.2.666 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/rangifer/article/view/666 SP - 325-329 AB - Studies of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) habitat selection based on group analyses have led to erroneous conclusions. Convenient designations such as «male-» or «female-dominated» group encompass a wide array of possible sizes and compositions which change continuously and erratically. Whenever individuals of at particular sex/age class can occur in more than one group type, and/or whenever groups within a type vary in size, an analysis based on groups alone is fallacious. Data must be based on individual caribou for most, if not all, determinations of distribution. ER -