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

水电是加拿大普遍使用的可再生能源。虽然大型发电站通常存在于加拿大的内陆地区，但电力需要传输到消耗大部分电力的社区。要做到这一点，就必须在荒野中建造道路传输权，这可能会影响到野生动物以及依赖野生动物维持生计、文化和精神活动的农村和土著社区。了解路权如何影响狼等关键捕食者的行为，将有助于我们解开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水电公司以及加拿大其他水电发电和输电公司（Nalcor能源公司及其子公司）都很重要。该项目对传输路权通过的农村和土著社区也有价值。我们预计这个项目将产生结果，说明狼的资源选择、运动、捕杀和捕食率如何受到路权的影响。预计该项目将影响马尼托巴水电公司建设输电路权的方式，并在必要时减轻输电路权的影响。鉴于全国各地水电开发的增长，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，预计这项研究对加拿大和加拿大人的影响将更广泛。此外，加拿大和加拿大人将从这些信息中受益，因为它将帮助传输水力发电的公司节省他们的输电线路路线和监测路权影响，同时平衡这些大型人为特征对景观的当地和生态影响。********

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.********