Morphological Traits Are Not Consistently Related to Population Size in Four Migratory Caribou Populations Across North America
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This study examined data on the status of three northern mammal species – caribou/reindeer, Pacific walrus, and polar bear—during two decades of the ongoing Arctic warming. The emerging record may be best approached as a series of local human-animal disequilibria interpreted from different angles by population biologists, indigenous peoples, and anthropologists, rather than a top-down climate-induced ‘crash.’ Such new understanding implies the varying speed of change in the physical, animal, and human domains, which was not factored in the earlier models of climate–animal–people’s interactions.
This master's project collected and documented Inuit observations to describe the population distribution of caribou and muskoxen in Nunavut.