Land Management Search Results
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Ted Armstrong
Michael Gluck
Glen Hooper
Iain Mettam
Gerald Racey
Marc Rondeau
The range of Ontario’s woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) (forest-dwelling ecotype) has receded northward substantially over many decades, leading to its current Threatened designation...
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Jesse Whittington
Mark Hebblewhite
Nicholas DeCesare
Lalenia Neufeld
Mark Bradley
John Wilmshurst
Marco Musiani
1. Caribou and reindeer Rangifer tarandus are declining across North America and Scandinavia in part from wolf Canis lupus-mediated apparent competition with more abundant ungulate prey species. While...
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This site provides a BLAST utility for searching the caribou ( Rangifer tarandus) genome and a download section containing the genome data. As new versions of the genome become available, the website...
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This guide was collaboratively developed to help communities in Northwest territories assess the health of barren ground caribou using non-invasive methods. Focusing on body condition and behaviour...
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Benjamin Padilla
K. Dornstauder
Susan Kutz
This guide was collaboratively developed to help communities in Northwest territories assess the health of barren ground caribou using non-invasive methods. Focusing on body condition and behaviour...
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Authors
Barry Nobert
Terrence Larsen
Karine Pigeon
Laura Finnegan
Resource Date:
April
2020
Abstract Mountain pine beetle (MPB) has become an invasive forest pest of mature pine in western North America as it spreads beyond its former endemic range. Management actions such as timber harvest...
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Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
In the summer of 2021, PDAC completed their Caribou Management Strategies: Best Practices for the Mineral Industry study, to analyze the impact of exploration and mining activity on caribou...
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Tiff-Annie Kenny
Myriam Fillion
Sarah Simpkin
Sonia Wesche
Hing Man Chan
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...
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Heather Johnson
Trevor Golden
Layne Adams
David Gustine
Elizabeth Lenart
Resource Date:
December
2020
Increasing demands for energy have generated interest in expanding oil and gas production on the North Slope of Alaska, USA, raising questions about the resilience of barren-ground caribou ( Rangifer...
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David Borish
Ashlee Cunsolo
Jamie Snook
Inez Shiwak
Michele Wood
HERD Caribou Project Steering Committee
Ian Mauro
Cate Dewey
Sherilee Harper
Examines the critical interplay between cultural continuity and adaptive capacity for responding to ecological uncertainty based on an Inuit-led, multi-year, multi-media qualitative and visual media
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Mathieu Leblond
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Steeve Côté
Background: Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during...
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Authors
Don Russell
Anne Gunn
Robert White
Caribou and wild reindeer ( Rangifer) are integral to ecology and Aboriginal lives and culture in circumArctic regions. Since reaching peak size in the 1990s, most herds have been declining, while...
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Catherine Gagnon
Sandra Hamel
Don Russell
James Andre
Annie Buckle
David Haogak
Jessi Pascal
Esau Schafer
Todd Powell
Michael Svoboda
Dominique Berteaux
Migratory tundra caribou are ecologically and culturally critical in the circumpolar North. However, they are declining almost everywhere in North America, probably due to natural variation...
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Chloé Morineau
Yan Boulanger
Philippe Gachon
Sabrina Plante
Martin-Hugues St-Laurent
Resource Date:
September
2023
Abstract The contraction of species range is one of the most significant symptoms of biodiversity loss worldwide. While anthropogenic activities and habitat alteration are major threats for several...
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Authors
Frances Stewart
Tatiane Micheletti
Steven Cumming
Ceres Barros
Alex Chubaty
Amanda Dookie
Isabelle Duclos
Ian Eddy
Samuel Haché
James Hodson
Josie Hughes
Cheryl Johnson
Mathieu Leblond
Fiona Schmiegelow
Junior Tremblay
Eliot McIntire
Resource Date:
February
2023
Most research on boreal populations of Woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou) has been conducted in areas of high anthropogenic disturbance. However, a large portion of the species’ range...
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Tracy McKay
Karine Pigeon
Terrence Larsen
Laura Finnegan
Resource Date:
February
2021
Abstract In western Canada, anthropogenic disturbances resulting from resource extraction activities are associated with habitat loss and altered predator–prey dynamics. These habitat changes are...
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Julien Prunier
Alexandra Carrier
Isabelle Gilbert
William Poisson
Vicky Albert
Joelle Taillon
Vincent Bourret
Steeve Côté
Arnaud Droit
Claude Robert
Rangifer tarandus has experienced recent drastic population size reductions throughout its circumpolar distribution and preserving the species implies genetic diversity conservation. To facilitate...
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Michael Ferguson
François Messier
Aboriginal peoples want their ecological knowledge used in the management of wildlife populations. To accomplish this, management agencies will need regional summaries of aboriginal knowledge about...
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Henrik Moller
Fikret Berkes
Philip O'Brian Lyver
Mina Kislalioglu
Using a combination of traditional ecological knowledge and science to monitor populations can greatly assist co-management for sustainable customary wildlife harvests by indigenous peoples. Case...
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Nicole Wilson
Edda Mutter
Jody Inkster
Terre Satterfield
Indigenous peoples are increasingly developing Community-Based Monitoring programs to protect the waters and lands within their territories in response to multiple ecological and political stressors...