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Measurements of Cesium in Arctic Beluga and Caribou Before and After the Fukushima Accident of 2011
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Concern from northern communities following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of March 2011 has prompted a reassessment of the safety of their traditional foods with respect to radioactivity...
Meeting Caribou in the Alpine: Do Moose Compete with Caribou for Food?
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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...
Mercury in Seaweed - Inuktitut
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This two-page plain language summary in Inuktitut talks about mercury in seaweed and other food eaten by caribou in the Qamanirjuaq herd. A longer, English report on this study is also available. An...
Mercury in Seaweed, Lichens and Mushrooms from the Home Range of the Qamanirjuaq Caribou
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Qamanirjuaq caribou have higher mercury concentrations than many other Arctic caribou herds. Usually, caribou get most of their mercury from lichens, but local elders described the Qamanirjuaq caribou...
Merging Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge Links Climate with the Growth of a Large Migratory Caribou Population
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Climate change in the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else in the world. It is therefore crucial to understand the effects of weather on keystone arctic species, particularly those...
Natal Habitat Preference Induction in Large Mammals—Like Mother, Like Child?
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Project Description:We used complementary approaches to assess natal habitat preference induction in a marked population of woodland caribou. All approaches compared the behavior of calves in their...
Natal Habitat Preference Induction in Large Mammals—Like Mother, Like Child?
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...three complementary approaches to assess NHPI in a marked population: (a) population‐based resource selection functions (RSFs), (b) individual‐based RSFs, and (c) behavioral repeatability analyses.
New research shows Indigenous-led conservation forging a new recovery model for caribou in British Columbia
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Results show the collaborative recovery effort led by West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations has brought the Klinse-Za mountain caribou back from the brink of local extinction, or...
Overcoming Challenges of Sparse Telemetry Data to Estimate Caribou Movement
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Sparse data sets, such as VHF collar locations, can be used to fit movement models whose parameters could not be estimated directly from the data.
Plain Language Summary: Mercury in Seaweed, Lichens and Mushrooms from the Home Range of the Qamanirjuaq Caribou
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The Qamanirjuaq caribou have higher mercury concentrations than some other caribou in the Arctic. Usually, caribou get most of the mercury they eat from lichens, but at community meetings in Kivalliq...
Population Ecology of Caribou Populations Without Predators: Southampton and Coats Island Herds
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This paper is a review of the ecology of two caribou populations inhabiting predator-free northern islands, Coats and Southampton Island. Findings are analyzed in light of the hypothesis that in...
Range Fidelity: The Missing Link Between Caribou Decline and Habitat Alteration?
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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...
Report to the Hunters of the Ahiak Caribou – Feb 2019
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The Northern Contaminants Program monitors contaminants in Arctic Caribou in Canada. To view this report in Inuktitut, click here. Related Herds: Ahiak This resource and others can be found on the...
Report to the Hunters of the Bluenose West Caribou – Feb 2019
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The Northern Contaminants Program monitors contaminants in Arctic Caribou in Canada. Related Herds: Barren-ground, Bluenose West This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada...
Report to the Hunters of the Dolphin and Union Herd - 2019 - Inuktitut
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Two-page summary report to hunters of the Dolphin and Union caribou herd on research into contaminants in the herd. Related Herds: Dolphin and Union This resource and others can be found on the...
Report to the Hunters of the Kivalliq Region Contaminants in Qamanirjuaq Caribou – September 2017
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With the help of local hunters, we have been taking kidney, liver and muscle samples of Qamanirjuaq caribou since 2006. We collect these samples to study changes in the amount of contaminants such as...