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A Decision Support Tool for Assessing Cumulative Effects on an Arctic Migratory Tundra Caribou Population
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Using the caribou cumulative effects model, an existing decision support tool, we evaluate 6 alternative development scenarios, from no leasing to full leasing with standard mitigation conditions
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: Can Local Knowledge Inform Caribou Management?
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This project looked at local knowledge of the Porcupine Caribou Herd, collected by the Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Co-op (ABEKC). While local observations indicated that the herd was...
Arctic Borderlands Ecological Knowledge Cooperative: Can Local Knowledge Inform Caribou Management?
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While quantitative analyses have traditionally been used to measure overall caribou herd health, qualitative observational data can also provide timely information that reflects what people on the...
Assessing Risk of Mercury Exposure and Nutritional Benefits of Consumption of Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation Community of Old Crow, Yukon, Canada
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The contamination of traditional foods with chemical pollutants is a challenge to the food security of Aboriginal Peoples. This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada website...
Biogeochemical Response to Vegetation and Hydrologic Change in an Alaskan Boreal Fen Ecosystem
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Boreal peatlands store approximately one third of the earth’s terrestrial carbon, locked away in currently waterlogged and frozen conditions. Peatlands of boreal and arctic ecosystems are affected...
Biological Soil Crusts and Native Species for Northern Mine Site Restoration
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The nitrogen cycle is highly sensitive to pollutants and restoration of this biogeochemical pathway is essential to ensure long-term sustainable ecosystems. In a greenhouse trial, the growth and...
CircumArctic Collaboration to Monitor Caribou and Wild Reindeer
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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...
Contaminants in Two West Greenland Caribou Populations
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Two caribou populations in West Greenland were sampled and the kidneys, liver and muscle analyzed for contaminants, including aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, copper, lead, mercury, selenium and zinc...
Inuktitut Summary Report on Contaminants in the Ahiak Herd
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A two-page summary report in Inuktitut on contaminants in the Ahiak caribou herd. To view this report in English, click here. Related Herds: Ahiak This resource and others can be found on the Northern...
Inuktitut Summary Report on Contaminants in the Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd
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A two-page summary report in Inuktitut on contaminants in the Dolphin and Union caribou herd Related Herds: Dolphin and Union This resource and others can be found on the Northern Caribou Canada...
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...
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...
Northern Biochar for Northern Remediation and Restoration
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Biochar is a soil amendment that results from heating various biological ingredients, such as wood, fish or animal bone under oxygen limited conditions and has proven to promote plant growth, as well...
Passive Treatment of Mine Drainage Waters: The Use of Biochars and Wood Products to Enhance Metal Removal Efficiency
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Passive biological treatments have been proposed as a possible efficient and cost effective treatment method for metal bearing water discharged from mine sites after closure. Several biofilters are...
Peat Loss Collocates with a Threshold in Plant–Mycorrhizal Associations in Drained Peatlands Encroached by Trees
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Drainage-induced encroachment by trees may have major effects on the carbon balance of northern peatlands, and responses of microbial communities are likely to play a central mechanistic role. We...