Boreal Caribou Search Results
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Ilona Kater
Robert Baxter
The survival of reindeer during winter, their period of greatest food stress, depends largely on the abundance and accessibility of forage in their pastures. In Northern Sweden, realized availability...
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Kaitlyn Dornstauder
Benjamin Padilla
Susan Kutz
Visual assessment of caribou health is very difficult. To better understand the current health status of Bathurst caribou, Kaitlyn Dornstauder, a University of Calgary Veterinary student working in...
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Magali Houde
Eva Krümmel
Tero Mustonen
Jeremy Brammer
Tanya Brown
John Chételat
Parnuna Egede Dahl
Rune Dietz
Marlene Evans
Mary Gamberg
Marie-Josée Gauthier
José Gérin-Lajoie
Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann
Joel Heath
Dominique Henri
Jane Kirk
Brian Laird
Mélanie Lemire
Ann Lennert
Robert Letcher
Sarah Lord
Lisa Loseto
Gwyneth MacMillan
Stefan Mikaelsson
Edda Mutter
Todd O'Hara
Sonja Ostertag
Martin Robards
Vyacheslav Shad
Arctic Indigenous Peoples are among the most exposed humans when it comes to foodborne mercury (Hg). In response, Hg monitoring and research have been on-going in the circumpolar Arctic since about...
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Angelo Filicetti
Scott Nielsen
Energy exploration has led to fragmentation of habitats worldwide. In boreal forests of Alberta, Canada narrow clear-cut linear disturbances (3–14 m wide) called seismic lines are often the largest...
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Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...
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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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Canadian Conservation and Land Management Knowledge Network
View this infographic to learn more about how an open source model using artificial intelligence is contributing to significant time and cost savings in identifying and classifying camera trap data.
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Melanie Dickie
Geoff Sherman
Glenn Sutherland
Robert McNay
Michael Cody
Resource Date:
September
2022
In the paper 'Evaluating the impact of caribou habitat restoration on predator and prey movement', the authors evaluated movement responses of wolves, black bears, caribou, and moose on seismic lines...
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Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal neurodegenerative prion disease of cervid species including deer, elk, moose and reindeer. The disease has shown both geographic and species expansion since...
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Jessica Theoret
Maria Cavedon
Troy Hegel
Dave Hervieux
Helen Schwantje
Robin Steenweg
Megan Watters
Marco Musiani
We aimed at assessing seasonal movement behaviours, including migratory, resident, dispersing, and nomadic, for caribou belonging to the Barren-ground and Woodland subspecies and ecotypes. Our unexpected findings of marked seasonal movement plasticity in caribou indicate that this phenomenon should be better studied to understand the resilience of this endangered species to habitat and climatic changes. Our results that a substantial proportion of individuals engaged in seasonal migration in all studied ecotypes indicate that caribou conservation plans should account for critical habitat in both summer and winter ranges.
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Fabien St-Pierre
Pierre Drapeau
Martin-Hughes St-Laurent
Resource Date:
February
2022
By showing which forest roads are more used by caribou predators (wolves and bears) and its apparent competitor (moose), our study highlights the importance of considering both road-scale characteristics and the landscape context in which roads are built to prioritize the most detrimental roads to caribou conservation and guide efficient restoration efforts of its habitat.
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Libby Ehlers
Gabrielle Coulombe
Jim Herriges
Torsten Bentzen
Michael Suitor
Kyle Joly
Mark Hebblewhite
Summer diets are crucial for large herbivores in the subarctic and are affected by weather, harassment from insects and a variety of environmental changes linked to climate. Yet, understanding...
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Steven Wilson
Glenn Sutherland
Nicholas Larter
Allicia Kelly
Ashley McLaren
James Hodson
Troy Hegel
Robin Steenweg
Dave Hervieux
Thomas Nudds
Understanding spatial distributions of organisms and the consequences for conservation policy and management decisions remain important challenges. We describe a method for grouping caribou into plausible candidate Local Population Units that may better approximate geographic closure than the existing LPUs.
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Steve Wilson
John Wilmshurst
Helicopter- and snowcat-supported backcountry skiing is a unique industry that is widespread throughout southern mountain caribou habitat in British Columbia (BC). We analyzed records of helicopter...
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National Boreal Caribou Knowledge Consortium
Monitoring of the Threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou ) boreal population (hereafter boreal caribou) presents many challenges, as boreal caribou are broadly distributed in densely...
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Virginie Christopherson
Jean-Pierre Tremblay
Patrick Gagné
Jean Bérubé
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
The Atlantic-Gaspesie caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) is an endangered, isolated population that has been declining for decades in response to intensive logging. Timber harvesting has led to a...
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John Boulanger
Jan Adamczewski
Tracy Davison
We analyzed 20 data sets from post-calving surveys in the NWT and NU carried out between 2000 and 2015 using the Rivest estimator. We provide a set of working recommendations to optimize field sampling to ensure reliable estimates of herd size using post-calving methods.
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S. Couturier
Aaron Dale
Bryn Wood
Jamie Snook
Formal report of the results of the 2017 aerial survey of the Torngat Mountains caribou herd.
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Brenda Parlee
John Sandlos
David Natcher
Resource Date:
February
2018
The paper describes a “tragedy of open access” occurring in Canada’s north as governments open up new areas of sensitive barren-ground caribou habitat to mineral resource development. A growing body of science and traditional knowledge research points to the adverse impacts of resource development; however, management efforts have been almost exclusively focused on controlling the subsistence harvest of northern Indigenous peoples.
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Authors
Tracy Davison
Judy Williams
Jan Adamczewski
A 24-page report of an aerial survey of Peary caribou and muskoxen on Banks Island in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region of the Northwest Territories. This resource and others can be found on the...