I am studying wolves in Finland. One important issue I need to take into account is the distribution (population density variations) of animals within the country. The idea is to compare other relevant data on a municipality to province scale to where the animals are, rather than just considering the country as a single cell with "n" animals.
I was wondering if there is some resource or publications on similar distributions in other countries? Could be Canada, US, Italy, Romania, Russia, India, etc. Anything, something I could compare the data to. Other apex predator distributions might be interesting too.
I acknowledge that the method of identifying the distribution is crucial - making a map using radio collar data from individuals may not be comparable to a map done using sighting abundances.
Check following paper published by Marboutin et al. 2011 http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10344-010-0453-2 it is available as well on researchgate. Best Fridolin
As far as i know there are already maps of population density variation of the Finnish wolves on the pages of Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute: http://www.rktl.fi/riista/suurpedot/susi/
Thank you for the information. I already knew of that data page. I probably wasn't clear enough in the beginning explanation: I am using the RKTL/FGFR data as one parameter in my study - I am not trying to figure out where the wolf population in Finland is. And now I'm trying to locate similar data for other countries.
About the data you linked to: Do you know if there is a legend to those figures? There are 9 color codes for the density (animals/area) but the values as such are not given. Or alternatively, can I obtain the original data from RKTL/FGFR? So far they haven't replied to my contact attempts.
I have attached also all the article in this zip archive. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Hi, although this question is very old and already answered, I thought useful to add this study on the geographical distribution of wolves in China. This could help people having the same question.
The study reviews and list more than 100 publications/article on wolves distributions in China since 1950's. See table 1 : Literature list of distributions of wolves in China.
The name of the study is : "The geographical distribution of grey wolves (Canis lupus) in China: a systematic review" (2016) - By Lu Wang, Ya-Ping Ma, Qi-Jun Zhou, Ya-Ping Zhang, Peter Savolainen and Guo-Dong Wang.
Link : Article The geographical distribution of grey wolves (Canis lupus) i...
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