Testing the effects of hydropower transmission line right-of-ways on wildlife movements and predator-prey dynamics

水力发电是加拿大使用的一种常见的可再生能源。虽然大型发电站通常存在于加拿大的腹地，但电力需要输送到消耗大部分电力的社区。为了做到这一点，通过荒野修建传播权，可能会影响到野生动物以及依赖野生动物作为食物、文化和精神实践的农村和土著社区。了解路权如何影响Keystone捕食者的行为，如狼，将有助于我们理清这些低密度人为特征对生态的影响，特别是对捕食者(狼)和猎物(驼鹿)种群动态的影响。该项目对我们的工业合作伙伴马尼托巴省水电公司以及加拿大各地的其他水力发电和输电公司(纳尔科能源及其子公司)都很重要。该项目对农村和土著社区也有价值，通过这些社区传播传输权。我们预计这个项目将产生结果，说明狼的资源选择、移动、猎杀和对驼鹿的捕食率如何受到通行权的影响。该项目预计将影响马尼托巴省水电建设输电路权的方式，并在必要时减轻输电路权的影响。考虑到全国水电开发的增长，以及对这些大型人为特征对加拿大景观的更全面影响(例如，当地、生态、环境)评估的愿望，这项研究预计将对加拿大和加拿大人产生更广泛的影响。此外，加拿大和加拿大人将从这些信息中受益，因为它将帮助输送水力发电的公司节约其输电线路的布线和对路权影响的监测，同时平衡这些大型人为特征对景观造成的所谓的当地和生态影响。

Hydropower is a common and renewable energy resource used throughout Canada. Whereas large generating stations typically exist in Canada's hinterlands, the electricity needs to be transmitted to the communities that consume the majority of power. To do so transmission right-of-ways are constructed through the wilderness and may affect the wildlife and rural and indigenous communities that rely upon the wildlife for sustenance, cultural, and spiritual practices. Understanding how right-of-ways affect behavior in keystone predators, such as wolves, will help us disentangle the effects of these low-density anthropogenic features on the ecology, particularly for predator (wolves) and prey (moose) population dynamics. This project is important to our industrial partner, Manitoba Hydro and likewise for other hydropower generating and transmitting companies across Canada (Nalcor Energy and its subsidiaries). The project also has value to rural and indigenous communities through which transmission right-of-ways are routed. We anticipate that this project will produce results that illustrate how wolf resource selection, movement, kill and predation rates on moose are affected by right-of-ways. This project is anticipated to impact the way Manitoba Hydro constructs transmission right-of-ways and, where necessary, mitigate the impacts of transmission right-of-ways. A broader impact of this research for Canada and Canadians is anticipated given the growth in both hydroelectric development occurring across the country and the desire for more complete impact (e.g. local, ecological, environmental) assessments of these large anthropogenic features on the Canadian landscape. Moreover, Canada and Canadians will benefit from this information because it will help companies that transmit hydrogenerated electricity economize their transmission line routing and monitoring of right-of-way impacts, while balancing the purported local and ecological impacts of these large anthropogenic features on the landscape.