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Boreal Caribou Survival in a Warming Climate, Labrador, Canada 1996–2014
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Highlights Boreal caribou persistence has been affected by landscape disturbance and subsequent apparent competition. Climatic conditions also affect caribou via energy gains and losses and indirectly...
Canadian Wetland Inventory using Google Earth Engine: The First Map and Preliminary Results
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Although wetlands provide valuable services to humans and the environment and cover a large portion of Canada, there is currently no Canada-wide wetland inventory based on the specifications defined...
Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and Inuit Nutrition Security in Canada
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A 2018 academic paper examining the relationship between Inuit nutrition and caribou. It found that “Caribou was the top dietary source of protein in Nunavut (up to 35% of total intake) and the ISR...
Comparing Deep Learning and Shallow Learning for Large-Scale Wetland Classification in Alberta, Canada
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Developed two wetland inventory style products for a large (397,958 km2) area in the Boreal Forest region of Alberta, Canada, using Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and ALOS DEM data
Context-dependent Group Size: Effects of Population Density, Habitat, and Season
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Group size can vary in relation to population density, habitat, and season. Habitat and season may also interact with population density and affect group size through varying foraging benefits of...
Coyote (Canis latrans) Diet and Spatial Co-occurrence with Woodland Caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou)
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The interplay of predator encounters and antipredator responses is an integral part of understanding predator–prey interactions and spatial co-occurrence and avoidance can elucidate these interactions...
Divergent Estimates of Herd‐wide Caribou Calf Survival: Ecological Factors and Methodological Biases
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Abstract Population monitoring is a critical part of effective wildlife management, but methods are prone to biases that can hinder our ability to accurately track changes in populations through time...
Factors Contributing to the Cultural and Spatial Variability of Landscape Burning by Native Peoples of Interior Alaska
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This article analyzes the geographical extent to which native peoples of Interior Alaska used fire to modify the landscape at the time of European contact. Although wildfire has been central to the...
Finding Lichen for Caribou
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A storymap website that explains the importance of lichen as a food source for caribou and the first steps of a project for mapping lichen undertaken by Natural Resources Canada's Canada Centre for...
Functional Response to Cumulative Effects as an Effective Tool for Wildlife Management
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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...
Historical Landscape Use of Migratory Caribou: New Insights From Old Antlers
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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...
Laurie Chan
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Professor and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Toxicology and Environmental Health
On the Marginal Value of Swimming in Woodland Caribou
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During fieldwork on 30 May 2017, we observed an unmarked adult male caribou swim between two smaller islands, a distance of 470 m, which took approximately 9 minutes. Given that swimming is...