Abstract
An unmarked male mountain goat. Photo by Kevin White. Our study used mountain goat GPS location data to infer patterns of habitat selection of mountain goats in southeast Alaska. We extrapolated these patterns of habitat selection to create landscape resistance surfaces in southeast Alaska. Resistance surfaces were then evaluated on their ability to predict genetic relatedness among individual mountain goats. We found female habitat selection patterns to be the best predictors of genetic relatedness, and suggest that this approach should further elucidate the relationship between habitat heterogeneity and genetic connectivity. A nanny with her kid. Photo by Kevin White. A GPS radio-collared male mountain goat with a glacier in the background. Photo by Kevin White. These photographs illustrate the article “Habitat selection predicts genetic relatedness in an alpine ungulate,” by Aaron B. A. Shafer, Joseph M. Northrup, Kevin S. White, Mark S. Boyce, Steeve D. Côté, and David W. Coltman, tentatively scheduled to appear in Ecology 93(6), June 2012.
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