PR (BNE) - 098: Gauging climate change effects at local scales: weather-based indices to monitor insect harassment in caribou - Abstract
Key words: climate change, insect harassment, body condition,caribou and reindeer, central Arctic
Key words: climate change, insect harassment, body condition,caribou and reindeer, central Arctic
Key words: caribou, Fortymile caribou herd, population dynamics, weather, wolves
Key words: harvest management, barren-ground caribou herds, winter range, herd status, overlap, collars, multi-strata models
Key words: CircumArctic Rangifer Monitoring and Assessment (CARMA), caribou, climate change, ecology, environmental stress
Key words: Alaskan boreal forest; ALFRESCO; caribou; fire regime; global warming; landscape modeling; Rangifer tarandus; spatially explicit; spruce woodlands; succession
Key words: tundra snow cover; snow depth; snow water equivalent
Key words: aggregative response; black bear (Ursus americanus); calving grounds; caribou (Rangifer tarandus); carnivore management; neonates; Newfoundland; predator-prey interactions; predator reduction; ungulate conservation
Key words: wolves, bears, predator control/management, biology, economics, ecology
Key words: caribou; markovian; migration; Rangifer tarandus granti; seasonal distribution; simulation; subsistence hunting
Key words: arctic; calving grounds; caribou; clustering; fuzzy clustering; hierarchical linkage; home range; path length; Rangifer tarandus; space use; subarctic; subpopulation