Funding for this study was provided by a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship to Q.M.R.W.(acronym of author Quinn M.R.Webber);a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Grant to E.V.W.
Scale remains a foundational concept in ecology.Spatial scale,for instance,has become a central consideration in the way we understand landscape ecology and animal space use.Meanwhile,scale-dependent social processes ...
This study explores how dust from the Ekati Diamond Mine potentially affects the availability and quality of forage on the seasonal range of the Bathurst caribou herd. Understanding the effects of dust as a source of ...
Barren ground caribou are one of the most important natural resources for northern aboriginal peoples in Canada, and their responsible management has been identified as a top priority by northern communities and gover...
support fromthe U.S. National Park Service,the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Siléns Foundation;Hunters in the Kotzebue area kindly provided us with harvest materialon wolverines,caribou and moose;Dan Stevenson and the local staff at the U.S.National Park Service office in Kotzebue for logistical support;to Gene Peltola for help during aninitial stage of the Noatak wolverine project
Knowledge of carnivore diets is essential to understand how carnivore populations respond demographically to variations in prey abundance. Analysis of stable isotopes is a useful complement to traditional methods of a...
This study presents our preliminary results of the concentrations of chlorinated hydrocarbon contaminants in muscle, liver of caribou and intestine tissues of seal collected from the Arctic Area by China Arctic Scien...