Public Registry: Archives

The documents herein make up the list of completed WRRB projects and the subsequent record of proceedings.

Archived Documents

PR (BNE) - 090: CARMA’s MERRA-based caribou range climate database

Key words: CircumArctic Rangifer  Monitoring  and Assessment (CARMA), caribou, climate change, ecology, environmental stress

Science
PR (BNE) - 089: Simulating the Influences of Various Fire Regimes on Caribou Winter Habitat - Abstract

Key words: Alaskan boreal forest; ALFRESCO; caribou; fire regime; global warming; landscape modeling; Rangifer tarandus; spatially explicit; spruce woodlands; succession

Science
PR (BNE) - 088: Observations of late winter Canadian tundra snow cover properties - Abstract

Key words: tundra snow cover; snow depth; snow water equivalent

Science
PR (BNE) - 087: Spatiotemporal variation in the distribution of potential predators of a resource pulse: Black bears and caribou calves in Newfoundland - Abstract

Key words: aggregative response; black bear (Ursus americanus); calving grounds; caribou (Rangifer tarandus); carnivore management; neonates; Newfoundland; predator-prey interactions; predator reduction; ungulate conservation

Science
PR (BNE) - 086: Using Traditional Knowledge to Adapt to Ecological Change: Denésǫłıné Monitoring of Caribou Movements

Key words: caribou, fall migration, harvesting, monitoring, traditional ecological knowledge, Dene, Denésǫłıné, environmental impacts, diamond mining

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BNE) - 085: Wolves, Bears, and Their Prey in Alaska: Biological and Social Challenges in Wildlife Management

Key words: wolves, bears, predator control/management, biology, economics, ecology

Science
PR (BNE) - 084: Seasonal Climate Variation and Caribou Availability: Modeling Sequential Movement Using Satellite-Relocation Data

Key words: caribou; markovian; migration; Rangifer tarandus granti; seasonal distribution; simulation; subsistence hunting

Science
PR (BNE) - 083: Subpopulation structure of caribou (Rangifer tarandus L.) in arctic and subarctic Canada - Abstract

Key words: arctic; calving grounds; caribou; clustering; fuzzy clustering; hierarchical linkage; home range; path length; Rangifer tarandus; space use; subarctic; subpopulation

Science
PR (BNE) - 082: Monitoring Barren-Ground Caribou Body Condition with Denésǫłıné Traditional Knowledge

Key words: Denésǫłıné, hunters, elders, traditional knowledge, caribou, body condition, monitoring program

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BNE) - 081: Den site selection of wolves (Canis lupus) in response to declining caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) density in the central Canadian Arctic - Abstract

Key words: wolves, den site selection, Bathurst caribou herd, summer range, Northwest Territories

Science
PR (BNE) - 080: Denésǫłıné (Chipewyan) Knowledge of Barren-Ground Caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) Movements

Key words: caribou, migration, Dene, Łutselk’e, traditional knowledge, aboriginal hunting, Northwest Territories, Denésǫłıné, Chipewyan

Traditional Knowledge
PR (BNE) - 079: Percentage of Fecal Moss in Arctic Ungulates as an Indicator of Wintering Area Quality - Abstract

Key words: Arctic ungulates; caribou; moss; muskoxen; Ovibos moschatus; Rangifer tarandus; reindeer; winter diet; winter range

Science
PR (BNE) - 078: Seasonal effects of Pacific-based climate on recruitment in a predator-limited large herbivore

Key words: calving, PDO, Rangifer tarandus caribou, snow, Yukon Territory

Science
PR (BNE) - 077: Interacting effect of wolves and climate on recruitment in a northern mountain caribou population - Abstract

Key words: mountain caribou, population dynamics, wolves, wolf control, large scale climate effects, Yukon

Science
PR (BNE) - 076: Predation by wolves interacts with the North Pacific Oscillation (NPO) on a western North American elk population

Key words: climate, North Pacific Oscillation (NPO), population dynamics, predator–prey.

Science