Boreal Caribou Search Results
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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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Authors
Yo Ching Cheng
Marco Musiani
Maria Cavedon
Sabine Gilch
Resource Date:
March
2017
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease found in deer, elk and moose in North America and since recently, wild reindeer in Norway. Caribou are at-risk to encounter CWD in areas such as...
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Åshild Pedersen
Eeva Soininen
Brage Hansen
M. Le Moullec
L.E. Loe
Ingrid Paulsen
Isabell Eischeid
S.R. Karlsen
E. Ropstad
Audun Stien
Arnaud Tarroux
Hans Tømmervik
Virve Ravolainen
Abstract Understanding drivers of space use and habitat selection is essential for management and conservation, especially under rapid environmental change. Here, we develop summer and winter habitat...
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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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Authors
Hannah McKenzie
Evelyn Merrill
Raymond Spiteri
Mark Lewis
In areas of oil and gas exploration, seismic lines have been reported to alter the movement patterns of wolves (Canis lupus). We developed a mechanistic first passage time model, based on an...
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Sabrina Plante
Christian Dussault
Julien Richard
Steeve Côté
Resource Date:
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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Authors
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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Jean Polfus
Mark Hebblewhite
Kimberly Heinemeyer
Resource Date:
November
2011
This resource is available on an external database and may require a paid subscription to access it. It is included on the CCLM to support our goal of capturing and sharing the breadth of all...
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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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Mathieu Leblond
Christian Dussault
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Resource Date:
September
2013
Anthropogenic disturbances have been demonstrated to affect animal behavior, distribution, and abundance, but assessment of their impacts on fitness-related traits has received little attention. We...
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Catherine Chagnon
Mathieu Bouchard
David Pothier
Resource Date:
March
2022
Forest logging has contributed to the decline of several woodland caribou populations by causing the fragmentation of mature coniferous stands. Such habitat alterations could be worsened by spruce...
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Chloé Martineau
Alexandre Langlois
Isabelle Gouttevin
Erin Neave
Cheryl Johnson
In this article, the researchers 1) investigate whether a snow model adapted for the Antarctic (SNOWPACK) can produce snow simulations relevant to Canadian High Arctic conditions, and 2) test snow...
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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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Gerald Racey
Al Arsenault
Resource Date:
April
2006
A hierarchical approach to critical habitat identification has been proposed in the draft National Recovery Strategy for the Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou), Boreal Population. This...
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Authors
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...
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Authors
Eric Palm
Michael Suitor
Kyle Joly
Jim Herriges
Allicia Kelly
Dave Hervieux
Kelsey Russell
Torsten Bentzen
Nicholas Larter
Mark Hebblewhite
Resource Date:
January
2022
Climate change will lead to more frequent and more severe fires in some areas of boreal forests, affecting the distribution and availability of late-successional forest communities. These forest...
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Authors
Mateen Hessami
Ella Bowles
Jesse Popp
Adam Ford
Resource Date:
August
2021
This article identifies the gaps and linkages between the North American Model of wildlife conservation and Indigenous-led conservation efforts across Canada. Although a diversity of approaches to...