Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Matthew Mumma
Michael Gillingham
Chris Johnson
Katherine Parker
We evaluated functional responses of Threatened boreal woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou), moose ( Alces alces), and gray wolves ( Canis lupus) to roads and seismic lines (linear features...
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Kirsten Solmundson
Jeff Bowman
Micheline Manseau
Rebecca Taylor
Sonesinh Keobouasone
Paul Wilson
Abstract Caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) have experienced dramatic declines in both range and population size across Canada over the past century. Boreal caribou ( R. t. caribou), 1 of the 12...
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Guillemette Labadie
Clément Hardy
Yan Boulanger
Virginie Vanlandeghem
Mark Hebblewhite
Daniel Fortin
Although global change can reshape ecosystems by triggering cascading effects on food webs, indirect interactions remain largely overlooked. Climate- and land-use-induced changes in landscape cause...
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Julie Godbout
Marie-Claude Gros-Louis
Manuel Lamothe
Nathalie Isabel
The speed and magnitude of global change will have major impacts on riparian ecosystems, thereby leading to greater forest vulnerability. Assessing species’ adaptive capacities to provide relevant...
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Katherine Baillie-David
John Volpe
Cole Burton
Jason Fisher
Conserving endangered species sometimes involves killing their predators. In the case of Nearctic wolves (Canis lupus), rarely are lethal control measures examined for ancillary effects on predator...
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Jean Birks
John Manchuk
Yi Yi
Cynthia McClain
Michael Moncur
John Gibson
Clayton Deutsch
Emily Taylor
Guy Bayegnak
Groundwater quality data for the AOSR are compiled and interpreted to provide information on regional water quality to inform groundwater monitoring and land use planning. A database of 546 water...
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Melanie Dickie
Robert Serrouya
Marcus Becker
Craig DeMars
Michael Noonan
Robin Steenweg
Stan Boutin
Adam Ford
Anthropogenic habitat alteration and climate change are two well-known contributors to biodiversity loss through changes to species distribution and abundance; yet, disentangling the effects of these...
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José Riofrío
Joanne White
Piotr Tompalski
Nicholas Coops
Michael Wulder
When combining multi-temporal airborne laser scanning (ALS) data sets, forest height growth assessments can be compromised due to variations in ALS acquisitions. Herein, we demonstrate the importance...
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Kristen Bondo
Bryan Macbeth
Helen Schwantje
Karin Orsel
Diane Culling
Brad Culling
Morten Tryland
Ingebjørg Nymo
Susan Kutz
Boreal woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) are listed as threatened across Canada, and a basic understanding of their health status is lacking. From December 2012 to April 2013, we...
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Rebecca Taylor
Micheline Manseau
Sonesinh Keobouasone
Peng Liu
Gabriela Mastromonaco
Kristen Solmundson
Allicia Kelly
Nicholas Larter
Mary Gamberg
Helen Schwantje
Caeley Thacker
Jean Polfus
Leon Andrew
Dave Hervieux
Deborah Simmons
Paul Wilson
High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles through genetic...
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Joshua Miller
Brooke Crowley
Clément Bataille
Eric Wald
Abigail Kelly
Madison Gaetano
Volker Bahn
Patrick Druckenmiller
Resource Date:
January
2021
Accumulations of shed caribou antlers ( Rangifer tarandus) are valuable resources for expanding the temporal scope with which we evaluate seasonal landscape use of herds. Female caribou shed their...
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Dominique Boucher
Sylvie Gauthier
Nelson Thiffault
William Marchand
Martin Girardin
Climate change is projected to increase fire severity and frequency in the boreal forest, but it could also directly affect post-fire recruitment processes by impacting seed production, germination...
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
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August
2018
A 2018 academic paper to assess the effects of human disturbance on barren-ground caribou herds. This study focuses on the Leaf River and George River herds in northern Quebec and Labrador. The paper...
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Chao Zhang
Yumei Li
Xiaoyu Hu
Xiaofan Ma
Wei Jia
Kai Liu
Yonggang Nie
Abstract Aim: Understanding changes in the behaviour of threatened species responding to rapidly increasing human disturbances is critical for biodiversity conservation. Here, we synthesize a meta...
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Hanna Blåheda
Miguel San Sebastián
In 2006, a British mining company started the process of extracting ore from Gállok/Kallak, in Swedish Sápmi. These grounds are used all year round for reindeer herding by the Sámi community...
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Vinod Mahat
Axel Anderson
Rivers in Southern Alberta are vulnerable to climate change because much of the river water originates as snow in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
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Emily Chenery
Maud Henaff
Kristenn Magnusson
Jane Harms
Nicholas Mandrak
Péter Molnár
Surveying ticks on wildlife hosts consistently over time and across space presents many challenges. In Yukon, Canada, the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus, is a blood-feeding parasite that can...
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Melanie Dickie
Nicola Love
Robin Steenweg
Clayton Lamb
Jean Polfus
Adam Ford
Abstract Effective species management relies on evidence-based goals that address the processes influencing population demography. These goals therefore require understanding how stressors affect the...
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Natalie Ban
Alejandro Frid
Mike Reid
Barry Edgar
Danielle Shaw
Peter Siwallace
Indigenous knowledge and ecological science have complementary differences that can be fruitfully combined to better understand the past and predict the future of social-ecological systems...
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Craig DeMars
Chris Johnson
Melanie Dickie
Thomas Habib
Michael Cody
Amit Saxena
Stan Boutin
Robert Serrouya
Conservation strategies for imperiled species are frequently based on identifying and addressing the probable causes of population decline, an approach known as the declining population paradigm...